Rize

The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul has opened a new exhibition in collaboration with REVAK Rize Research Foundation, titled "Village Architecture of Eastern Black Sea," based on Professor Orhan Özgüner's research in the Black Sea Mountains back in 1968. 

The heli-skiing season has begun in Turkey's northeastern province of Rize's Kaçkar Mountains.

A police chief in Turkey's Black Sea province of Rize was shot dead on Dec. 11, local media reported.

A court in the Black Sea province of Rize has rejected a lawsuit filed by locals seeking the cancellation of a controversial road project which will connect the highlands of nine provinces with each other as part of plans to develop tourism in the region.

The Turkish Environment and Urbanization Ministry has determined that nine illegal structures on the riverbed of Fırtına (storm in English) Valley in the Black Sea province of Rize will be demolished.

Officials in Turkey's Black Sea province of Rize have identified 11 new spots that will serve as alternatives to the popular Ayder Plateau in the face of strong demand from local and foreign tourists. Click through for the story in photos...

The breaktaking highlands of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Rize have welcomed two women as official guides of the national park. Click through for the story in photos...

A pest species, dubbed the “vampire butterfly,” has started to spread into homes at higher elevations in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Rize. Click through for the story in photos...

An urban transformation process, run by the state-owned Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ), will begin in the idyllic Ayder Plateau located in the Çamlıhemşin district of the Black Sea province of Rize by the end of this year, the local governor has announced.

Three floating islets on a lake in the northern Turkish province of Rize are being used by villagers to predict the weather. Click through for the story in photos...