From the surface, Turkey's Lake Van looks like any other large body of water. Turkey's largest, the lake sits in the far eastern region of the country, near Iran.

The mud at the bottom of Turkey's Lake Van stores information about the climate of the last 500,000 years. Millimeter-thin layers with embedded pollen reveal climate information with a year by ...

Researchers studying a vast lake in Eastern Turkey have unearthed the remains of a 3,000-year-old castle buried beneath its waters. Tahsin Ceylan, an underwater photographer and videographer ...

Researchers from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University teamed up with a local team of divers to conduct an underwater excavation in the biggest lake in Turkey. The Governorship of Turkey’s eastern ...

An occasional shrub marks the spots from where Lake Van has retreated over years of global heating and drought. "The animals are thirsty," the 65-year-old lamented.

Lake Van, the largest body of water in Turkey and the second largest in the Middle East, is drying up — and its retreating water line is leaving behind stinky, polluted mud and causing a "bird ...

That might be because you don’t live in Turkey. The lake and its alleged monster are quite the Turkish tourist attraction, and now they are about to be the subject of their first ever feature film.

A boat that sank on Lake Van in eastern Turkey is believed to have been carrying up to 60 refugees and migrants when it went down in stormy weather, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.

After the removal of coronavirus restrictions, a boat carrying dozens of immigrants believed to come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran sank in eastern Turkey’s Lake Van on June 27.

Lake Van, Turkey's largest lake, has seen a significant drop in water levels in its shallow areas due to reduced rainfall and rapid evaporation. The lake in the eastern province of Van has witnessed ...

Our Van Life adventure in Turkey keeps on giving! We find a fabulous spot driving from Dalyan & around the nearby lake to the town of Koycegiz. A great route if you come to this area of Turkey.

Carcasses of dead gulls like the shoreline of Turkey's shrinking Lake Van ... as he grazes cattle on a barren field that was once lush with vegetation on the edge of Turkey’s largest lake.