Turkey sets solar and wind power record, with renewables now supplying more than half its electricity
In August, sun and wind generated 9.9 billion kWh, and renewables reached 56.4 per cent of all the country's electricity.
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Restoration of Istanbul’s Süleymaniye Mosque reveals architect Sinan’s acoustic secrets
Restorers found jars hidden in the dome that soften sound and prevent echoes, along with 16th-century paintings and calligraphy set on metal.
Night-vision drones now guard Sardis and Bin Tepe, World Heritage sites in Turkey
A new aerial surveillance centre aims to stop illegal digging at the ancient Lydian capital and its royal necropolis of more than 120 burial mounds.
3,400-year-old Hittite royal archive found in Turkey reveals an epidemic, wars and a king’s grief
At Kayalıpınar, a Koç University team found 131 cuneiform tablets which, with those from 2025, form an archive of 184 documents.
What may be the world’s oldest shipwreck, 4,400 to 4,700 years old, found off Turkey
The Bronze Age trading vessel sank off Kekova Island in Antalya, and some of its amphorae still hold traces of their contents.
Ship carrying 2100-year-old tableware reveals secrets of ancient Mediterranean trade
Turkish archaeologists are raising from the seabed near Adrasan thousands of pieces of pottery from a ship that sank more than two millennia ago, many still remarkably intact.
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