On March 6, 1930, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of modern-day Turkey, visited the southern Anatolian city of Antalya and, per the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers ...

Photo from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism Thousands of years ago, a buyer in modern-day Turkey did a bit of shopping. A record of the transaction was scratched out on a small tablet ...

The area of modern-day Turkey during the Bronze Age was understood to be a “small-scale, egalitarian setting,” but new analysis of 5,000-year-old burials shed doubt on this conclusion — and ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

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