Screengrab from Vahit Kirişci’s Facebook video Trail cameras in the mountains of Turkey captured a rare sighting of a leopard species previously considered extinct for decades, officials said.

Starting from the mountains in eastern and southern Turkey, P.K.K. fighters attacked Turkish military bases and police stations, prompting harsh government responses. Later, the conflict spread to ...

It would be fair to say the best limestone is to be found at Sivridağ. This mountain is important to all trad climbers in Turkey because, apart from the great climbing, it is so close to civilization ...

For decades, lightly armed guerrilla fighters based in the mountains spanning Turkey and Iraq battled Turkey's powerful military. In the 1990s, the PKK declared it was no longer seeking separatism ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s rescue teams, who are grappling with the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey, have delivered humanitarian aid to remote villages in the mountains of the ...