The recent 4.9 magnitude earthquake in the Dardanelles has led some scientists to believe that it is a precursor to a very large earthquake in Constantinople
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Turkey worries for an earthquake greater than 7 Richter - These small tremors "gradually break the faults and lead to major earthquakes"
Originally some 11 metres tall, it was later broken up and pillaged for bronze
According to Yeni Safak, the conversion into a mosque has been completed with the laying of the red carpets
Turkish city’s pre-Ottoman heritage is falling away through lack of care or being obscured for political purposes
Earlier, the head of American diplomacy had met in Constantinople with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A catastrophe under the frozen glance of the British, as retaliation for the Cypriot struggle for Independence
It is unlikely that a Christian church would have kept a statue of such a pagan god
The cleric has been put on indefinite leave
The pair of 1,500-year-old Byzantine-era lady’s sandals are adorned with a heartwarming message inscribed in Greek