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 ...
The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the existence of the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world, the fifth century ...
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that several late Antique Age and Medieval monasteries and churches in Mardin's Tur Abdin area have been included in the tentative list of UNESCO ...