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The 16th century Recep Pasha Mosque in the medieval town of Rhodes is undergoing restoration as part of the Culture Ministry's strategic plan for the promotion of the island's medieval city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Former US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he hopes that Turkey will revise its decision to convert the Chora church from a museum into a mosque.

Switzerland on May 24 returned to Iraq three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a criminal procedure, Bern said.

During a ceremony at the culture ministry in Bern, Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider handed over a partial statue and two Mesopotamian reliefs to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.

One in five children are at risk of graduating from elementary and middle school functionally illiterate, according to a 2023 report by the scientific committee of the Authority for Quality Assurance in Primary and Secondary Education (ADIPPDE), the Greek equivalent of the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which is a worldwide study by the Organization for Economic Cooperat

The excavations at the ancient city of Aizanoi have emerged as a testament to sophisticated early urbanism and economic systems of an aspiring Roman metropolis.

After the statue of Asclepius, the god of medicine in Greek and Roman mythology, the statue head of his daughter, Hygieia, has been unearthed during the ongoing excavations carried out in the ancient city of Laodicea in the western province of Denizli, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.

Archaeological excavations carried out in the ancient city of Smyrna in İzmir have unearthed figures and objects with Egyptian civilization influences.

All 81 provinces of Türkiye, along with its overseas representations, are set to host a week-long series of programs spotlighting the unique dishes and local ingredients of Turkish gastronomy.

The archaeological site is included in the nomination file for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List

The Ministry of Culture has completed a fire safety study for the archaeological site of Heraion on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, which has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1992.