Drought in Turkey has revealed ancient underwater fairy chimneys as lake waters recede. Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, a saline soda example, fed water from streams descending from ...

On the verge of losing its UNESCO World Heritage listed site Capadocia, Turkish officials seem to have little idea on how to preserve fairy chimneys. Cappadocia, a historical site in central Anatolia ...

As drought has caused Lake Van to recede, leaving something beautiful, but disturbing to be revealed: ancient fairy chimneys in Turkiye’s biggest lake. These fairy chimneys are really microbialites, ...

Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

This country is plain weirdness, and the history of the cave-dwelling communities of Cappadocia is as peculiar as the landscape itself. The place bears a resemblance to the Badlands or parts of Utah; ...