Fatma Şahin

Turkish actress Serra Yılmaz, who carried out numerous projects in the field of theater and cinema in Italy for 19 years, has been awarded the prestigious Minerva-Anna Maria Mammoliti Award, which is given to women who have achieved success in different fields in Italy.

The Union of Municipalities of Turkey (TBB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the International Labor Organization (ILO) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to promote more accessible childcare to encourage women's participation in the labor force.

Twelve ancient Zeugma mosaic pieces looted during illegal excavations in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep nearly 50 years ago will be returned to the country from the U.S. at the end this month, Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Şahin has told daily Hürriyet.

Fatma Şahin, the mayor of the southeastern province of Gaziantep, has become the first mayor to be chosen as the president of the Union of Municipalities of Turkey (TBB) as part of an election on May 8 in the capital Ankara.

Fatma Şahin, the mayor of the southeastern province of Gaziantep, has cancelled a planned visit to Deventer in the Netherlands after consultations between Turkish and Dutch diplomats about the reservations of The Hague over the timing of the visit.

Fatma Şahin, the mayor of the southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, has been awarded Italy’s Anna Maria Mammoliti Minerva Prize on Nov. 30 for her and her municipality’s efforts for refugees in Turkey, becoming the first Turkish woman to win the award.

Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Şahin has visited a lion cub that has been taken under protection after being found abandoned in a car on Aug. 23 in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak, naming the lion "Cesur" (Brave). 

Şahin visited the lion cub at the Gaziantep Zoo and fed him with milk through a syringe.

Pistachio is a passion for the people of Gaziantep, and the city is surely Turkey's capital of pistachios where most dishes, either savory or sweet, take their generous share of the greenest nut. The end of the summer is the period when pistachio pickers constantly check the groves for the ideal harvest time.

Turkey's first Zoology and Nature Museum, which opened on April 23 in the southeastern province of Gaziantep and displays stuffed wild animals, has been visited so far by more than a million people. 

Animals that have completed their life in nature and zoos have been stuffed by experts and put on display at the museum in the Gaziantep Zoo. 

Rumkale (Roman Castle), which was home to many civilizations throughout history and an important center for early Christianity as it is known to be a place where the copies of the Bible were reproduced, will be open to tourism.