Last autumn, I took my parents on a drive from Ganzantiep in the south of Turkey to Kars in the north east. It is a culturally rich area of the world with ruins of countless civilisations, from ...

ARBO, Tur Abdin -- The Assyrian village of Arbo in Tur Abdin is getting its original Assyrian name back. The renaming comes after villagers submitted an official request to the municipality of Nsibin ...

Religious officials in Mardin's Tur Abdin area welcome the decision. Tur Abdin, a hilly region mostly occupied by Syriac Christians until the last century, is located in the Midyat district. The ...

Two more sites within Turkey have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. The total number of Turkish assets has now reached 85. The Late Antique and Medieval Church and Monasteries of ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...