Isparta

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım visited Turkish commandos at the Eğirdir Mountain Commando School and Training Center Command in the Central Anatolian province of Isparta on Dec. 31.

An ancient city now located in a hilly area in the southwestern province of Isparta was once the site of gladiatorial battles to the death, according to reliefs that were recently found on the site.

Social media images of two people who cut off the ears of puppies in the Central Anatolian town Isparta caused a public outcry. 

Unfortunately, this is not a unique or a new example of savagery. Reactions grew, and the perpetrators were caught and fined.  

A stray cat, which was found with its chin and tail frozen to the ground in the southern province of Isparta, has been rescued by a local and taken under treatment at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Veterinary Faculty.

A small village in the southern province of Isparta was flooded by water from a dam after the facility and three other hydroelectric power plants in the vicinity began to operate.  

A big church in the ancient city of Pisidia, located in the southern province of Isparta’s Yalvaç district, has been finally unearthed after three years of work.
The church, built in the sixth century, is believed to have been destroyed during a big fire in the 11th or 12th century.

A big church in the ancient city of Pisidia, located in the southern province of Isparta's Yalvaç district, has been finally unearthed after three years of work. 
The church, built in the sixth century, is believed to have been destroyed during a big fire in the 11th or 12th century. 

A total of 50 people, including a former university rector, have been detained in western Turkey for having links to the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETÖ), a group accused of being formed and headed by U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to undermine the state from within.

Recently at a gathering of journalists friends, we were complaining that while there has not been any improvement in the climate of freedoms in the country, less and less craftsmen were writing about the lack of freedom of expression and, of course, media freedom, being castrated in the country.

Three provinces in Turkey's east and southeast stood at the bottom of a list by the official Turkish Statistics Institute's (TÜ?K) that ranked "well-being" across the country last year, while the western province of Isparta topped the standings.