Kütahya

The Phrygian Valley, located within the borders of the Aegean provinces of Kütahya and Afyonkarahisar and the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir, has suffered heavy destruction by treasure hunters. Targeting rock tombs, churches and castles in the region, the vandals also destroyed the walls of the rock-hewn Ayazini Church built a millennium ago with dynamite. 

he ancient city of Aizanoi will revive its Roman history with a project initiated in the area in the western province of Kütahya.

Locals in the western Kütahya province's Domaniç district were busy washing the fish coming out of the heavily polluted stream running through villages on July 21 as contamination levels have caused fish deaths.

Turkey has three new entries in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN): Istanbul as a city of design, Kütahya as a city of crafts and folk art, and finally Hatay (also known as Antioch) as a city of gastronomy.

A symphonic folklore concert will be organized at the ancient city of Aizanoi in the inner Aegean province of Kütahya on July 22 to promote Aizanoi to the world, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced in a statement.

A soldier in the Aegean province of Manisa killed three other soldiers before killing himself on June 11, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The soldier, who reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was identified only by his initials N.A., opened fire in a gendarmerie station in Manisa's Kula district.

Around 300 village woman took up pickaxes, shovels, rakes and axes in order to halt construction of a museum on a pasture in the western Turkish province of Kütahya on June 2, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Women from Kütahya's İnköy neighborhood blocked the Kütahya-Eskişehir highway in protest at the Archeology Museum construction plan.

Turkish officials are hopeful that the ancient city of Aizanoi in the inner Aegean province of Kütahya will soon become "a second Ephesus," according to Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı.

As part of an extensive array of antiquities from India and the Islamic world, Bonhams has announced a fine and rare İznik pottery tile as one of the highlights of its upcoming sale to be held in London on Oct. 18. 

An ancient Roman-era burial chamber has been unearthed by treasure hunters who dug a three-meter tunnel inside a shanty house in the western province of Kütahya. 

The suspects kept the earth from the tunnel in the shanty house in the Alipa?a neighborhood.