A member of security personnel holds an assault rifle at the archaeological site of Karahantep in Sanliurfa, in southeastern Turkey, on October 17, 2023. On this archaeological site, a stone statue, over 2.30 m high and seated on a bench adorned with a leopard, was discovered at the end of September in south-east Turkey, at the heart of a complex of some twenty sites that were home to thousands of humans during the Stone Age, twelve thousand years ago. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP)