Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Women workers who opened a workshop together to produce bocce balls after receiving relevant training as part of a project in the southern province of Burdur have received a massive order for 114,000 bocce balls from France.

Turkey on March 11 marked the centennial anniversary of the Istiklal Marsi, or March of Independence, Turkey's national anthem. 

An event to mark the anniversary and to commemorate Mehmet Akif Ersoy, the writer of the anthem's lyrics, was held at the Beştepe National Congress and Culture Center in the capital, Ankara.

Turkey on Dec. 27 commemorated the 101st anniversary of the arrival of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the capital Ankara.

The commemoration events started at Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Atatürk, attended by the city's top officials.

It has been 84 years since the passing of Mehmet Akif Ersoy, a Turkish poet, author, academic, member of parliament, and the writer of the Turkish National Anthem, in 1936, leaving behind an immortal piece sung by generations of citizens of modern Turkey.

Turkey's parliament approved a motion early on Dec. 24 announcing 2021 as the year of the Turkish national anthem. 

The ancient city of Kibyra, also known as the "city of gladiators," in southwestern Turkey is set to become a new tourist hotspot.

The 2,300-year-old city is located among juniper and cedar forests in the Gölhisar district of Burdur province at an altitude of 1,350 meters (4,429 feet).

Turkey on April 23 celebrated the nation's April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day and the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish parliament.

People at 9 p.m. took up their places at the windows and balconies of their homes to sing the national anthem, the Istiklal Marsi (March of Freedom), while waving the Turkish flag.

Turkey marked the 99th anniversary of the İstiklal Marşı, Turkey's national anthem.

Mehmet Akif Ersoy's poem was enshrined as the national anthem by the Turkish Grand National Assembly or parliament on March 12, 1921.

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.

Ahmet Naç has become the sixth Changemaker of the 8th season of the Sabanci Foundation Turkey's Changemakers Program.

According to the recently published PISA report, Turkey ranks 52nd out of 72 countries in student assessment, with students very weak in science, reading, and mathematics.