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Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş visited Göbeklitepe, considered one of the world's oldest temples, on April 14. It is also on UNESCO's Tentative List of World Heritage Sites. 

Thursday is the last day you can catch the first Athens solo show of Azeri photographer Aydin Sadikhov at the Blank Wall Gallery, which is aimed at acquainting viewers with Baku's architectural heritage, where the traditional and historic - including several buildings on the UNESCO World Heritage List - harmoniously coexist with the modern.

Turkish scientist Duygu Sağ has been honored with the "L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Rising Talents" 2018 award in France.

Today we celebrate the World Radio Day and  the unique ability of this media to touch life and bring people together in every corner of the globe.

Radio is the most widely available mass media that reaches most people around the world, regardless of their level of education, socio-economic status, gender, and age.

SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Yonhap) -- Irina Bokova, former director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will join Kyung Hee University in Seoul as a chair-professor and head of its arts and humanities faculty starting next month, the university said Wednesday.

Following in the footsteps of the US, Israel announced its exit from UNESCO, citing the it's "attacks" on the Jewish state. The move comes after 128 UN members voted to reject the US' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

BELGRADE/JEJU - Kolo, the traditional Serbian dance, has made it to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The decision to inscribe it on the list was made on Thursday by the intergovernmental committee on protection of intangible cultural heritage at its 12th regular session, held on the island of Jeju, South Korea.

The traditional Serbian dance Kolo has been included in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The decision was made on Thursday by the intergovernmental committee on protection of intangible cultural heritage at the 12th regular session held in South Korea, Tanjug is reporting.

Martenitsa was listed as a cultural cultural heritage by UNESCO, the ministry of culture said.

The whistled “bird language” used by small groups of Black Sea villagers in remote northern Turkey has joined a UNESCO list of endangered languages in need of “urgent safeguarding.”