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14-year-old detained in SE Turkey on Erdoğan insult charges
A 14-year-old boy in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari has been detained on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social...
14-year-old Kurdish youth killed when border patrol soldier opens fire: report
Vedat Ekinci, a 14-year-old Kurdish boy, was killed on
Thursday by a border patrol soldier after he refused to stop despite warnings,
according to a statement...
2 Turkish soldiers killed, 1 injured in PKK terrorist attack: report
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another was
injured in a terrorist attack on Tuesday carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’
Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey,...
Turkey’s upcoming local elections ignite election fraud debate
As Turkey’s local elections slated for March 31 draw near, several reports in the Turkish media reveal peculiar numbers of registered voters in certain...
Probe finds Turkish NCOs disobeyed superiors in terror operation due to lack of planning
An investigation into a military contingent has revealed that in 2017, 48 noncommissioned officers (NCOs) objected to orders from their superiors, who wanted to...
Huge Turkish flag raised in Kurdish city of Hakkari
A huge Turkish flag visible from every corner of the Kurdish city of Hakkari was raised in an official ceremony on Tuesday.According to the...
25 soldiers injured, 7 missing in ammunition depot explosion in SE Turkey
Twenty-five soldiers were injured and seven others went missing in an explosion at an ammunition depot in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari on...
2 shepherds tortured by Turkish soldiers, report says
Two villagers from Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish Hakkari province were allegedly tortured for hours by a group of soldiers, the Mesopotamia news agency reported on...
Hakkari governor’s plans to merge polling stations would affect one-third of voters
The Hakkari Governor’s Office has asked the Supreme Election Board (YSK) to merge 134 polling stations in various villages and neighborhoods into 38 locations,...
HDP questions use of drones in deadly Hakkari incident
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has released a report on the killing of one civilian and the wounding of three others in a...
1 soldier killed in PKK attack in Hakkari
One soldier was killed in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sunday.According to a statement by the...
17 soldiers injured in PKK attack in Hakkari
Seventeen soldiers were injured when terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants detonated a bomb as a military vehicle was passing by in the Yüksekova...