UNESCO Creative Gastronomy City: Gaziantep and its dishes


Kebab shops, baked good producers, liver dealers and, obviously, baklava venders appear to be in an opposition to whet guests' hungers.


Strolling on the limited, wandering avenues of the city that covers its ragged out appearance with another face, makes one crave understanding a riddle well ordered.

Gaziantep, known as Doliche in the Antique Age, is one of the most established settlements on the planet, as indicated by various sources. The city that facilitated innumerable human advancements from Commagene to Byzantine has been under Turkish guideline since eleventh century. It got the "Gazi" (Veteran) title for the fight battled against foe occupation in the long periods of the Turkish War of Independence.


The Antep Castle, on the city's most astounding slope Kudret Rock, has saved its brilliance since the Hittites. 

The passage in the château that takes after the passageways of Roman amphitheaters, fight and perception patios offering a 360-degree city scene, the vestiges of mosques, and showers going back to the Ottoman time merit seeing. One must visit the Şahinbey neighborhood to watch the best precedents of nearby houses. High stone dividers of houses lined along thin rear ways were worked to shield occupants from the burning summer warm.


There is as much history underneath the city as there is above. There are burrows called "surrender" in the most seasoned houses. Specialists compare Gaziantep's underground to a huge subterranean insect settle.

Through motels


Boulevards extending among kebab houses at each progression, baklava places and shops that offer materials and textures with neighborhood designs open to authentic Uzun (Long) Bazaar celebrated for its coppersmiths and flavor stores. It isn't hard to run over shops which offer the best assortment of Antep kebabs in the region. Ali Nazik kebab served on aubergine puree, şöbiyet baked good, keme mushrooms, küşleme (back meat of sheep) and some more.

After Uzun Bazaar, the mother of pearl workshops comes next in line. The Archeology Museum, where mosaics and archeological antiquities uncovered in Zeugma and close archeological destinations are shown, is one of Gaziantep's most energizing corners. Gaziantep is the city of old and rich mosques too.

Nearby Turkish food eyes UNESCO enrollment

A nearby Turkish food is planning to enlist its bona fide tastes to UNESCO with 'world's most seasoned cooking' proverb.

eyes UNESCO enrollment

Nihat Çiftçi, the chairman of southeastern Şanlıurfa region, revealed to Anadolu Agency that numerous sightseers have visited the city looking for new societies and diverse tastes as of late.

The city offers many nearby sustenances, including kebabs and treats, Çiftçi said.

"Şanlıurfa has a profound established food culture. We should offer it to nearby and outside vacationers," Çiftçi said.

"We connected to UNESCO in 2014 in the field of gastronomy. It requires a few measures to be satisfied and we are taking a shot at them. The majority of the criteria have been expert," he expressed.

Çiftçi accentuated that Turkey is resolved to make Şanlıurfa's food all inclusive known.

He said that Şanlıurfa and Mardin, another southeastern area, eye UNESCO gastronomy enlistment following Gaziantep and Hatay, the two southern urban areas which earned innovative city and city of gastronomy prize in 2015 and 2017, individually.

In the interim, Şanlıurfa has officially positively influenced UNESCO World Heritage List.


Göbeklitepe - one of the most established destinations of archeological remains and most established sanctuaries on the planet - has been added to the rundown in July.

Abdurrahman Acar, the branch administrator of Gastronomy Tourism Association, said that travelers have demonstrated expanded enthusiasm to the gastronomic visits step by step.

"Şanlıurfa is more worthwhile regarding gastronomy the travel industry contrasted with Hatay and Gaziantep," he stated, including:

"Since it is the train of the district with its social and chronicled riches."

Bringing home the bacon in an antiquated city in Anatolia

When a flourishing and powerful city in the late Bronze Age, the antiquated city of Hattusha, which was likewise the capital of the Hittite Empire for a long time, has been giving employments to local people who enable archeologists to uncover the historical backdrop of the place where they grew up.

antiquated city in Anatolia

Occupations at the antiquated site, in the Central Anatolian region of Çorum's Boğazkale region, are rare, provoking numerous local people to work with archeologists find new relics to procure cash.

Hattusha, which is home to the social legacy of Hatti and Hittite, one of the principal civic establishments in Anatolia, is among Turkey's most imperative the travel industry spots. It entered the UNESCO's reality legacy list in 1986 and the UNESCO Memory of the World program in 2001. , The principal known composed harmony arrangement ever, the Kadesh Treaty, was marked between the Hittites and Egyptians in 1280 in Hattusha. Archeological unearthings in the antiquated city have been progressing there for a long time, revealing insight into a critical history and additionally utilizing local people of the area.

Institute of Archeology

Hattusha is situated in Boğazkale, one of the littlest areas in Çorum with a populace of 1,200 individuals.


A portion of the occupants in the area offer trinkets of Hattusha and procure cash, while some work for the archeological unearthings.

Somewhere in the range of 105 individuals go to the exhuming field regular with the leader of the unearthings, Associate Professor Andreas Schachner, who is doing the unearthings for the benefit of the German Institute of Archeology, and his group. They encourage the removal and reclamation group and witness the verifiable ancient rarities being revealed.

They are typically utilized among July and October ever year and get paid around 3,000 Turkish Liras every year. They are additionally protected.

Some resign from unearthings


Addressing state-run Anadolu Agency, Schachner said the unearthings are an extra wellspring of wage for local people and they make extraordinary commitments to the area amid the exhuming time frame.

Nicole Kidman passed through Bodrum like a wind

passed through Bodrum like a wind
Nicole Kidman passed through Bodrum like a wind
In 5 hours she won 525 thousand dollars. Nicole Kidman, who is one of the best and oldest women of Hollywood, passed like a wind from Bodrum

The Australian actress, who was shown as the example of beauty and elegance and will soon celebrate his 5th birthday, was in Turkey for the opening of the hotel

Glorious night began with a demonstration of musicians and dance groups from Russia, America and Britain

Nicole Kidman, who came to Bodrum with a private airplane, stayed for only 5 hours and received 525 thousand dollars. Nicole Kidman, who said that she would like to go to Bodrum together with her family as soon as she likes it,

Making brioche with fresh nettle

Fresh Needle for brioche made of nettle 2 pounds of yufka for 2 trays 4 eggs required amount of oil Salt and milk are washed after the stinging nettle is mixed with some amount of oil and salt then the egg and milk mixture is mixed with egg,

with fresh nettle
Put the nettles on top of the 3 layers of yufanci. Put 3 layers of yufak on the yufak and apply to the previously heated oven. Remember to wear gloves only when you are pointing or placing the nettles only or if you are exposed to excessive irritation

Why Apocalyptica canceled the Istanbul concert

World acclaimed Finnish cello-metal band Apocalyptica has declared that it has scratched off its show set to happen in Istanbul on April 8.

canceled the Istanbul concert
The band was because of make that big appearance as a feature of its extraordinary visit composed for the twentieth year of its presentation collection "Plays Metallica by Four Cellos."

"With awesome second thoughts we have to declare that Apocalyptica won't play a show in Istanbul on April 8, 2017. Some of our visiting gathering are apprehensive heading out to Istanbul because of authorities notices from different European Ministries of Foreign Affairs including Finland, Germany, Great Britain. As a band, we would prefer not to drive individuals into going to some place they are not glad about going to. We as a whole expectation we discover another chance to return to Turkey, soon," the band expressed on its web-based social networking account.

Goddess statue, 2,100-year-old mansion undermined by explosive in Turkey's north

One of Turkey's most imperative late archeological discovers confronts a grave danger because of impacting movement at a stone quarry in the region.

Cybele statue Turkey
A figure of the mother goddess of Kybele is undermined by blasts that happen every day on the edges of the 2,100-year-old Kurul Castle, which goes back to the time of Mithridates VI, a ruler of Pontus and Armenia Minor in northern Anatolia from around 120 to 63 B.C., operating at a profit Sea area of Ordu.

The château, situated at the pinnacle of the Kurul Rocks in Ordu's Bayadı town, has been experiencing archeological unearthings under the course of educator Yücel Şenyurt since 2010.

The disclosure of the noteworthy Kybele design amid late unearthings brought on extraordinary energy, with around 15,000 individuals hurrying to the city to see the model. However, albeit archeological works keep on being directed on the château, explosive is exploded each day on the slant of the Kurul Rocks disregarding the Melet River, making grave peril for the stronghold.

In 1996, the Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation Board proclaimed the palace as a first-degree archeological and normal site.

The court then wiped out the permit for the quarry, which had been opened inside the secured site. Be that as it may, in 2011, Kırca Engineering, which works the quarry, guaranteed that the quarry and the palace were situated on various rocks masses and properly asked for that the span of the ensured site be lessened.

In spite of the fact that the master report requested by the Ordu Administrative Court expressed that the quarry could totally crush the château, the Ordu Museum and the leader of the unearthings, Şenyurt, made an alternate report, expressing that the field of the quarry could be prohibited from the archeological site.

In like manner, the court endorsed the demand to absolved the quarry zone from the archeologically secured zone.

As a result of the exercises at the quarry, be that as it may, shake tombs under the manor are purportedly being crushed.

Earthy people respond

The leader of the Ordu Environmental Association, Gül Ersan, communicated outrage that Şenyurt had educated specialists that the quarry would not harm the palace.

"Archeologists can't approach the holes; they are taking a gander at them from a separation. They say that the pottery that they discovered near the quarry may have originated from the top. The court requested an assessment from him and he said it would not hurt the archeological site in his report. The organization is keeping on working on account of this report," Ersan said.

Ordu Metropolitan Mayor Enver Yılmaz, who has given 1 million Turkish Liras to the archeological unearthings, likewise censured the circumstance.

"We expanded the service's budgetary support from 50,000 liras to 1 million. Kybele turned into the train of the château. Finding a model in the passageway of the château demonstrates that more antiquities could be found inside. Somewhere in the range of 15,000 individuals went to the palace in two weeks. The quarry was given a permit before I took the post.

Half of this excellent complex has been harmed. We, as the senator's office, Culture and Tourism Ministry and the metropolitan region, protected nature and the manor amid the court procedure. This harm makes us exceptionally pitiful. We will settle it at the earliest opportunity," Yılmaz said.