Isparta

Yaka Canyon, located in Isparta province's Aksu district, amazes nature enthusiasts with its waterfalls, rich flora and abundance of bird and animal species. (DHA Photo)

Turkey on June 16 remembered its ninth president, Süleyman Demirel, who passed away five years ago.
Demirel was ousted twice in military coups and survived an assassination attempt before dying of heart failure at the age of 91.
He was one of Turkey's most prominent center-right political figures, serving as prime minister seven times and as president from 1993 to 2000.

A suspect who attempted to sell a metal sculpture of a Viking warrior has been caught in the southwestern province of Isparta. The historical artifact is 21x11 centimeters in shape and weighs a kilogram. Experts will examine it to determine when it was made.

The aromatic experience of rose harvest in Isparta - the southwestern Turkish province known as the "land of roses" - has come two weeks later this year due to a longer-than-usual winter.

The mayor of the southern Turkish province of Isparta has said that a stray dog shot by a municipality worker before being thrown into a garbage truck is doing fine in an animal shelter. 

Unidentified thieves have stolen nine out of 10 busts at a public park in the western Turkish province of Isparta. Click through for the story in photos...

Lake Eğirdir in the western province of Isparta has been shrinking at an alarming rate, with its average former depth of 16 meters having fallen to 6-7 meters this year, said the provincial representative of Turkey’s Protection of Nature Association on Nov. 12. Click through for the story in photos...

Farmers begin harvesting roses in Turkey's Isparta as spring arrives

Three Turkish soldiers were killed after a military cargo plane crashed in the Central Anatolian province of Isparta on Jan. 17, Isparta Governor Şehmus Günaydın said.

Businesses should hire employees based on their star signs, a Turkish academic has suggested in his thesis project submitted to the Süleyman Demirel University in the western province of Isparta.