Istanbul  - The perpetrators of last weekend's deadly bomb attack in Istanbul and their accomplices have been arrested, Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Saturday.

The terrorist attack of July 27 has been "cleared up," Atalay told reporters, adding a majority of the perpetrators had been caught.

Seventeen people were killed and more than 150 injured in the double explosion in the district of Gungoren in the European part of the city.

Istanbul, August 2 : Archaeologists have unearthed two piers belonged to the first century A. D. in the ancient city of Aphrodisias in Turkey.

According to Professor Dr. Roland Smith of the Oxford University, who heads the archaeological excavations in the ancient city, they found pieces of a beautiful arch and two piers during this year’s excavations.

Aphrodisias was a small city in Caria, Asia Minor. It is located near the modern village of Geyre, Turkey, about 230 km from Izmir.

Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of Love, who had here her unique cult image, the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias.

Ankara - The bodies of 13 refugees believed to have suffocated to death were found Wednesday morning near a village not far from Istanbul, the Dogan news agency reported.

Ankara  - Turkish police continued investigations Tuesday into a bomb blast on Sunday in Istanbul that killed 17 people and injured more than 150 with officials pointing the blame at the separatist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), charges the PKK have denied.

As the families of the dead continued funeral preparations police were seeking a man in a black shirt who was captured by a mobile phone camera running down the street in Istanbul suburb of Gungoren just seconds before the second blast hit, Yenisafak newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Istanbul, July 26 : Water will run down from the Antonine Nymphaeum, a monumental fountain located on the north of the ancient city of Sagalassos in Turkey, after some 1300 years.

Sagalassos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey. In Roman Imperial times, the town was known as the ‘first city of Pisidia’.

Restoration works on the city’s fountain, dated to the reign of Marcus Aurelius (A. D. 161-180), were expected to finish in 2010.

According to Semih Ercan, who heads the restoration works, the fountain with a height of 10 meters and width of 30 meters, is one of the most splendid structures in the ancient city.