Cappadocia

You cannot see a museum 20 meters underground in any other part of the world. You are strictly recommended to visit the new Güray Museum in Nevşehir's Avanos district. Because, neither today, nor in the future, you will have the chance to see this "extraordinary museum" in any other place. 

Police have detained four more suspects in connection with a deadly bomb attack against off-duty Turkish soldiers in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.    
    
Four more people were detained in the southern province of Adana on Jan. 4, bringing the total number of detained suspects to 27.  
   

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant who staged a deadly suicide attack in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri on Dec. 17 crossed illegally from the northern Syrian town of Kobane to the Turkish border town of Suruç, according to details that have emerged regarding the attack that claimed 14 lives. 

Fossil vertebrates of an elephant, rhino, giraffe, antelope, pig, hyena and primate that were found in the Central Anatolian province of Kırşehir's Kaman district will be displayed to visitors in a new museum set to open in the Cappadocia region. 

Drugs worth 25 million Turkish Liras were seized in an Oct. 7 operation in Istanbul, with police confiscating 1.1 tons of the chemically modified cannabis-based drug "skunk." 
The raid on the basement of a building in the Bayrampaşa district of Istanbul marked the largest single amount of skunk ever confiscated in Turkey, according to police. 

A record amount of drugs were seized in raids across the country late on Oct. 8, Doğan News Agency has reported.

More than two tons of marijuana, including skunk, and 70 kilograms of bonsai, a form of synthesized marijuana classified as the most dangerous drug in Turkey, were seized in raids during five separate operations conducted in four provinces. 

Boydak Holding has been transferred to the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) as part of the investigation into Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt, Doğan News Agency reported late on Sept. 5. 

A total of 18 people were detained on March 29 as police from the western province of ?zmir carried out simultaneous operations in five different provinces against a suspected web of human trafficking organizations.

Cappadocia's hot air balloons have become increasingly popular in recent years, though 2016 has seen a drop amid the general slowdown in Turkish tourism Last year almost half a million tourists viewed the Cappadocia region in central Turkey from its symbolic hot air balloons. 

A sculpture of the Aksaray Malakl?s?, a dog breed known as the Anatolian lion, has been erected in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray. 

The fame of Aksaray Malakl?s? has been on the rise in recent years in Turkey and abroad, prompting the local municipality to initiate new work to promote the dog breed in Turkey and abroad.