Zile

Nurettin Kurt, an award-winning Turkish crime reporter who had been treated in a hospital for lung failure for some time, has died at the age of 59 in the capital Ankara.

A funeral was held on April 12 for the journalist, and he was laid to rest at the Karşıyaka cemetery.

The last amphitheater of the northern Anatolian region will be unearthed in an excavation in Turkey's province of Tokat. The amphitheater is located just east of the historic castle of Zile, a city with a long Roman history and battle that prompted Roman Emperor Julius Caesar's famous phrase, "veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered). 

Turkey's top religious body, the Diyanet, has opened an investigation over a Quran-shaped cake made by a Quran class in the Black Sea province of Tokat in 2013, stating that the cake did not comply with the spirit of the Holy Birth of the Prophet Muhammad and the Quran.

Security forces tried to disperse some 2,000 protesters marching against three hydroelectric power plant (HES) projects in the Black Sea province of Tokat on March 15.