UNESCO

Officials have been spending last-minute efforts as the Göbeklitepe archeological site in Turkey's southeast, one of the leading historic values of the country, prepares to be nominated for UNESCO's  World Heritage list in 2018 ahead of a delegation visit in September. 

Officials have been spending last-minute efforts as the Göbeklitepe archeological site in Turkey's southeast, one of the leading historic values of the country, prepares to be nominated for UNESCO's  World Heritage list in 2018 ahead of a delegation visit in September. 

UNESCO Committee has announced its 21 new sites for world cultural heritage, reported bTV. 

Among them are a sacred Japanese island, temples in Israel and Cambodia, an ancient city in Iran, as well as Bulgarian beech forests.

Israel has decried a UNESCO resolution rejecting its sovereignty over Jerusalem and condemning Israeli "archaeological excavations" in Jerusalem's Old City.

In a statement on July 5, the Israeli Foreign Ministry described the resolution as "irrelevant, absurd and pathetic."

UNESCO has announced the publication of a book dedicated to protecting journalists and combating impunity.

A Roman-era sarcophagus of Hercules is currently on display in Geneva, Switzerland, but will return to its home in the Mediterranean province of Antalya following a Swiss court ruling in 2015. 

Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı, at an opening ceremony in Geneva, said the return of the Hercules sarcophagus is a new phase in Turkey's long-time international struggle.

Excavation, restoration and conservation work has started in the historic Seljuk graveyard in the eastern province of Bitlis' Ahlat, which is currently on UNESCO's World Heritage tentative list.

Minister of the Environment and Water Neno Dimov has signed a declaration nominating four biosphere reserves for inclusion in UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

The nominations are for biosphere reserves of a new kind - the Sreburna biosphere reserve, Chervenata Stena (The Red Wall), Uzunbudjak, and the Central Balkan national park.

First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Wednesday with the Egyptian candidate for director-general of UNESCO, Moushira Khattab.

Does the landscape that surrounds us define our culture? My answer would be a definite yes. The natural environment dictates what we eat, what we produce, what we create, and even how we think.