Turkey’s historical, cultural monuments available on Tourism Ministry website

BBC Monitoring Europe – Political, April 7, 2007 Saturday

Source: Anatolia news agency, Ankara, in English 0853 gmt 7 Apr 07

Sixteen museums, palaces and monasteries throughout Turkey can be visited on the Internet pages of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Detailed videos related to all these historical places can be seen under a link « Virtual museums » on the Internet site of the ministry.

Below are the historical places that can be toured virtually on www.kultur.gov.tr

Konya Mevlana Museum, Aphrodisias Museum, Hagia Sophia Museum, Denizli Hierapolis Archeology Museum, Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature, Ephesus Museum, Side Museum, Agri Ishak Pasha Palace, Dolmabahce Palace, Topkapi Palace, St Irene Church, St Nicholas’s Church Rite, Perge Theatre (Skene), Sumela Monastery.

The web address of the (?site) is http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN