Anatolia Energy Corp.

Anatolia Energy is pleased to provide an update regarding recent third party activities focused on the Dadas Shale in the Southern Anatolia Basin of southeast Turkey. Activities focused on the Dadas Shale have increased recently as flow tests have been reported by other operators in the Bismil-Diyarbakir area in the Southern Anatolia Basin of [...]

Anatolia Energy is pleased to report that the core analysis from the five cores extracted from the Dadas Shale formation in the Caliktepe-2 well in January 2012 has been completed. The analysis was completed in Calgary by a division of Trican Well Services Ltd. The results from the geochemical and reservoir data analysis for the Dadas Shale in [...]

Anatolia Energy Corp. (the "Company") (TSX-V: AEE) announces it has filed its annual audited financial statements, related Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") and National Instrument ("NI") 51-101F1 and NI 51-101F3 reports for the year ended December 31, 2011 on SEDAR. The financial statements and associated MD&A are available on [...]

Anatolia Energy reports that the operator has finished drilling and testing the initial exploration well (Las Palmeras-1) on the LLA-24 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia. The well encountered oil and gas shows in 32 feet of sandstone in the Gatcheta formation, and was perforated and tested from 7680 feet to 7674 feet, 7669 feet to 7662 feet [...]

Anatolia Energy reports that it has been informed by the operator that the initial exploration well (Las Palmeras-1) on the LLA-24 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia was spud on February 19, 2012. The block has multi-zone stacked potential in the C7, Mirador, Guadalupe, Gacheta and Ubaque sandstones and is expected to be drilled to a depth of [...]

Anatolia Energy announces that its Board of Directors have approved the grant of 5,690,000 stock options to directors, officers and consultants pursuant to the Company's approved stock option plan. The options are exercisable at a price of $0.25 per share. The options have a five-year term and vest over a one year period with one-third vesting [...]

Anatolia Energy reports that testing operations on the Caliktepe-2 well on its Bismil licenses have been completed. The wellbore encountered high reservoir quality Bedinan sand with porosities up to 15% and permeabilities up to 7 millidarcies. A drill stem test also recovered 38° API oil over an interval that included the lower Dadas shale and the [...]

Anatolia Energy is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Layzell as Vice President, Exploration. Mr. Layzell brings 30 years of leadership and technical experience in international exploration management, geology and geophysics. Mr. Layzell played a significant role in the growth of First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. ("FCP") until its sale in [...]

Anatolia Energy is pleased to provide the following update regarding its Turkish and Colombian operations. The Caliktepe-2 well on the Bismil license was drilled by the Company's joint venture partner, Çalık Enerji Sanayive Ticaret to a total depth of 2,500 meters and reached its primary target - the Bedinan sand. The well has now been cased and the drilling rig was released on December 20th. A service rig arrived on site on January 3rd and the Company anticipates that perforating and testing of the primary target will commence around January 13t [...]

Anatolia Energy is pleased to announce that further to its press releases of December 5, 2011, the Company will commence trading at market open on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "AEE". In addition, Anatolia is pleased to provide the following information concerning the oil and gas assets of Anatolia.