Niğde Province

A 20-million-year-old fossil, believed to belong to a sea creature, has been unearthed during the excavations in the ancient city of Tyana, located in the Kemerhisar district of the central Anatolian province of Niğde.

Home to many civilizations such as the Hittites, Romans, Seljuks, Karamanoğlu Principality and Ottomans, the Central Anatolian province of Niğde awaits its visitors with its churches, ruins, mosques, mountains, lakes and natural beauties.

Turkey's Niğde province, home to many civilizations such as the Hittites, Romans, Seljuks, Karamanoğlu, and Ottomans, awaits its visitors with its natural and cultural heritage. (AA Photo)

The population of wild goats in Turkey's Aladağlar National Park and Demirkazık Wildlife Development Site has topped 2200. (AA Photo)

A Turkish court remanded two suspects in custody for smuggling radioactive element in the central Niğde province, security sources said on March 28.

Three mountaineers were rescued on June 4 after being stranded for 13 hours on Demirkazık Mountain in the central province of Niğde.

A fresco depicting a smiling Virgin Mary in the Gümüşler Monastery in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde has been drawing much attention of local and foreign tourists, but it is yet to be found whether she was actually smiling when the fresco was first made or it is the result of a restoration that went wrong. 

A 2,800-year-old Hittite inscription, which is on a rock in the Bolkar Mountain in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde and claimed to be the world's oldest mining license, will be taken under protection.