ROME / ISTANBUL
Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said the Gobeklitepe exhibition at Rome’s Colosseum has drawn more than 6 million visitors, underscoring the ancient site as one of Türkiye’s key cultural assets that should be promoted as a global brand.
Gobeklitepe, regarded as the world’s oldest temple, has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage Tentative List since 2011. It was first identified in 1963, when researchers from the universities of Istanbul and Chicago began excavations at the site situated near the town of Sanliurfa in southeastern Türkiye.
Ersoy expressed his satisfaction with the success of the exhibition Gobeklitepe, The Enigma of a Sacred Place, which opened on…
