Xanthos

The Lycian Civilizations Museum, opened last year in the southern province of Antalya's Demre district, has been displaying artifacts indoors and outside.  

A total of 1009 artifacts unearthed during excavations in the Lycian League cities have been drawing local and foreign tourists to the region. 

The government is examining new ways to crack down on the enduring phenomenon of under-the-table payments, or "fakelakia," for treatment at public hospitals, Health Minister Andreas Xanthos has told Kathimerini.

It might not be the middle of the desert, but Patara Beach on Turkey's Mediterranean coast is drawing great interest from tourists for its sand dunes that have provided opportunities for local tourism operators to launch horse and camel tours. 

Health Minister Andreas Xanthos on Friday announced plans to provide free birth control pills to women covered by national health provider EOPYY as well as uninsured women.

Greek prosecutors on Thursday forwarded to Parliament three case files relating to two members of the current cabinet and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.

The new government is expected to be sworn today at 10.30 am (local time) at.

Among the first who arrived at the Presidential Mansion was Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis and Deputy Minister of Defence Dimitrios Vitsas and Minister of Health and Welfare Andreas Xanthos.

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Excavation work has started for the summer season at one of the six largest cities of the Lycian Union, the ancient city of Xanthos, located in the southern province of Antalya's Ka? district. 

The ancient site has entered the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List along with 15 other historical artifacts.

In the Mediterranean resort province of Antalya, the second Stone Sculpture Symposium will be held in the Ka? district, which was recently added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

At the symposium to be held at the ancient site of Xanthos, nine marble seating areas that fit the historical fabric of the site will also be installed.

The government aims to create help centers for patients at public hospitals, Alternate Health Minister Andreas Xanthos said on Thursday.

Xanthos met with Ombudsman Calliope Spanou to discuss the matter and said that the centers would be called Offices for the Protection of Patients? Rights, providing assistance to citizens who have problems with the health service.

The Santa Claus Museum in Antalya's Demre is the most visited place by tourists, especially the French, in the whole region. It is followed by the ancient city of Myra In the first nine months of 2014, 2.6 million Turkish and foreign people visited the ancient sites in the southern province of Antalya. It is expected that this figure reached 2.8 million by the end of the year.