Van Yüzüncü

Van Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ) and the Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism have applied to the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry to include Van's distinctive regional breakfast on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The senate of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in the eastern province of Van has decided that one academic will dine with students every day after dozens of students living in a dormitory suffered from food poisoning last week.

Underwater photographer Tahsin Ceylan, who previously discovered coral which was thousands of years old during his research in Turkey's eastern Lake Van, recently found a pier built with Seljuk-era gravestones. 

An animal skeleton has been found in the storage room of a mosque in the eastern province of Van's Edremit district. 

Officials found the animal skeleton while emptying the storage of the old mosque, which was used for wood and coal storage, while moving to a recently built mosque in the district.  

Three police officers and a child have been wounded in clashes between the youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and security forces working to open roads closed by the militant group in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin.

Van cats, which are the most important living cultural beings of the eastern province of Van, have received great interest for their white fur and eyes of two different colors. 

Excavation and restoration works at the Ho?ap Castle in the eastern province of Van's Gürp?nar district, have revealed 250-year-old cheese. 

Works have been carried out in the castle, which was built in the 16th century on the foundation of an Urartian castle and served as a palace for many years, by a team of people from Van Yüzüncü Y?l University's department of Art History. 

Jewelry produced in the Urartian era 3,000 years ago are again a source of inspiration for today's sector. Technology has developed but the same techniques are still used Techniques used for ornamenting jewelry that were used by the Urartian Kingdom nearly 3,000 years ago are still in practice in the sector even though technology has dramatically changed.

Jewelry used by women and men in the Urartian era provide detailed information about social class differences, Van Yüzüncü Y?l University Head of Archaeology Department Associated Professor Rafet Çavu?o?lu has said.

The famous cats of the eastern province of Van appear set to escape extinction thanks to the efforts of the Van Cat Research and Application Center, which was formed under the auspices of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in the 1990s.