(2002 pop. 696,000). Konya is the capital of the province of Konya in south-central Turkey, the country's main agricultural region. The city is surrounded by fertile, well-irrigated plains, which have produced grains and cereals for millennia....

Konya (Ottoman Turkish: قونیه; also Koniah, Konieh, Konia, and Qunia; historically also known as Iconium (Latin), Greek: Ἰκόνιον Ikónion) is a city in Turkey, on the central plateau of Anatolia. It has a population of 742 690 (in 2000)....

FROM HIS tiny shop in Konya, in the midst of the desolate Turkish steppes, Hasan Huseyin claims he predicted last December's Venezuelan mudslides. He says they were a punishment from God for the legalisation of homosexual marriage in the West. What made his...

The discovery of an urban center called Catalhoyuk, near Konya, Turkey, in the 1958 is important because of the size of the settlement. Archeologists quit excavating it in 1965, but Turkey asked a group to finish the work in the 1990s. Much has to...

Turkish police have arrested a suspected al-Qaida militant accused of being part of a plot to carry out massive bombings against U.S.-related targets in Germany, German and Turkish authorities said Wednesday.Attila Selek, a 22-year-old German national, was arrested Tuesday in the central Anatolian city of...

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced seven suspected al-Qaida militants to life in prison for deadly 2003 suicide bombings in Istanbul that killed 58 people. The defendants, including Syrian Loa'i Mohammad Haj Bakr al-Saqa, were among 74 suspects standing trial in the attacks, which targeted...