Bayar

With the support of the German Archaeological Institute, international documentation work has been initiated in the agora building of the ancient city of Aigai, which dates back 2,700 years in the western province of Manisa.

The 2021 season excavations at the Ayasuluk Hill and St. Jean Monument will start on July 4 in Izmir.

Expert researchers from Istanbul University, Akdeniz University, Ege University, Dokuz Eylül University and Manisa Celal Bayar University will take part in the excavations.

On its 31st year, excavations in the western province of İzmir's ancient city of Metropolis, supported by the Sabancı Foundation, will continue to illuminate the secrets of history.

An 1,800-year-old statue of a woman was unearthed in İzmir, Turkish officials announced on June 12.

In a Twitter post, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry's Department of Excavations said the statue was found in the ancient city of Metropolis located in İzmir's Torbalı district.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed Greek Muslims as fellow nationals at an impromptu speech he delivered at the Celal Bayar Muslim community school at the northeastern town of Komotini on Friday afternoon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began the second and final day of his official visit to Greece on Friday with a trip from Athens to Alexandroupoli in Greece's northeastern tip and then to neighboring Komotini in Western Thrace.

His reception by Muslim Greeks at Komotini was more low-key than anticipated, and the Turkish statesman made no statements in the morning.

A road dating back to 2,000 years ago has been unearthed during the excavations in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa.

The authorities are concealing the results of a test conducted to diagnose the cause of an infection in a Turkish barracks that killed a soldier and hospitalized more than 1,000, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Manisa deputy Tur Yıldız Biçer has claimed.

Artifacts that were unearthed in 1882 by French researcher Michel Armand Clerc in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa are currently being displayed at Paris' Louvre Museum. 

Beneath the chapel's high wooden ceiling are 25 tables lined up. People conversing move from one table to another to the sound of traditional Christmas tunes, many holding a cup of hot chocolate in their hands, buying all kinds of handmade jewelry, drawings, sweets, toys and knitted accessories.