A woman who was declared dead to her town when she reached 101 has gone on to live another 20 years and has celebrated her 121st birthday this week by…
Turkish police have carried out their largest ever ancient artefact bust in the capital Ankara, seizing 16,398 coins and 399 other historical items dating back to the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk…
This is the moment a fox is found frozen solid in the standing position after temperatures dropped to minus 20 in the Turkish region. The frozen fox was found outside…
The world’s tallest man has travelled to Russia in search of a wife willing to bear him a son and a daughter. Sultan Kosen, 39, is a Turkish farmer of…
A Turkish food company has changed the name of their 30-year-old chocolate ‘Negro’ biscuit brand to ‘Nero’ to avoid being criticised as racist. The food firm Eti made the announcement…
This is the moment a whimpering dog alerts a kindhearted motorist about its injured puppy on the road before the man gets out of his car and takes them both…
This is the moment two bizarre-looking conjoined tortoises very slowly crawl across a table whilst being observed by curious scientists. The two-headed tortoise was found by a tourist at the…
This intact skeleton of an as-yet-unidentified animal has baffled Turkish scientists after it was unearthed at a local mill. The skeleton, about one metre (3.3 feet) tall with ferocious teeth,…
These poignant pictures show a German Shepherd named Fero, which has faithfully been waiting by its owner's grave since his death a week ago. According to the news site Olay53,…
A hermit cat that has been living on a building roof for over four years and refuses to come down for anyone including firefighters has become a local attraction. The…