Botanical garden

The largest botanical garden in Türkiye, the National Botanical Garden in the capital Ankara, is captivating visitors with its vast biodiversity, featuring approximately 1,200 different plant species and a collection of preserved animals.

Spanning an impressive 2,200 decares, the garden operates under an agricultural research policies body of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry.

It started as a queen’s vision and evolved into the country’s only botanical and at the same time historical garden, but mainly into an irreplaceable island of greenery in the concrete chaos of Athens.

Located in eastern Erzurum province, the Ata Park Botanical Garden astonishes visitors and onlookers with its spectacular autumn scenery. (AA Photo)

Volčji Potok – An exhibition of roses from all European Union member states has opened in the Arboretum Volčji Potok botanical gardens to mark the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU and present rose growing culture as an integrating element in the EU.

Entitled the EU in Roses, the exhibition comes upon an initiative of the Culture Ministry. It will run until 31 October.

Today, is the 150th anniversary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The museums and the Botanical Garden of the Academy will be open and free of charge to visitors.

This was announced by the BAS Press Centre.

Erkuter Leblebici, a 79-year-old academic who retired from Ege University's Botanical Garden and Herbarium Research and Application Center, has tattoos of the plant species he has discovered throughout his career and gained to literature inked on his arm. 

The allocation of Istanbul University's Botanical Garden to the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) in 2015 for the use of the Istanbul Mufti's Office has stirred a debate in Turkey, with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) blasting the move. 

The allocation of Istanbul University's Botanical Garden to the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) in 2015 for the use of the Istanbul Mufti's Office has stirred a debate in Turkey, with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) blasting the move. 

Daily Hürriyet’s jury of experts picked out the most beautiful gardens in Turkey with different designs, events and unique plant species from around the world for you.

"Nature is our first medicine," says a student  visiting Turkey's first garden for medicinal plants -- just one among an army of  researchers and experts who come here to see hundreds of potentially life-saving  species.