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Türkiye's efforts and principled stance for the well-being of the Syrian people are above all provocations, a Foreign Ministry statement said late on July 1 amid incidents in several Turkish cities and northern Syria.

The number of terrorists in Turkey has dropped to around 150, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said.

Speaking at the Gendarmerie General Command 2021 Evaluation Meeting, Soylu stated that the number of acts of terrorism decreased by 95 percent between the end of 2015 and 2021.

At least five civilians were killed and 15 others injured in a car bombing in Syria's northwestern city of Azaz, local sources said on Jan. 26.

At least seven civilians were killed and 20 others injured in a car bombing in Syria's northwestern city of Azaz, Turkey's defense ministry said on Jan. 26.

The injured were transferred to a hospital.

Turks and Kurds took part in a mass fight at a German airport, Nova TV reported. The cause of the riots was Ankara's offensive against the Kurdish detachments in Syria.

Kurds made a demonstration against Turkey's military campaign that began last week. At Hanover airport they carried banners of Kurdistan and northern Syria.

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım chaired a security meeting on Aug. 9 with Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Customs and Trade Minister Bülent Tüfenkci, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.  

Turkish forces retaliated with artillery fire overnight and destroyed Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia targets after YPG fighters opened fire on Turkey-backed forces in northern Syria, the Turkish military said on June 28.

The Atlantic Council released a very interesting analysis on the Russian-Turkish relation regarding Syria.

At least 33 outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) militants were killed in Turkey and northern Syria over the last week, the Turkish military said on March 18.

The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that 28 militants were killed in anti-PKK operations in the Turkish provinces of Diyarbakır, Bingöl, Siirt, Şırnak, Bitlis, Batman, and Hakkari between March 11 and March 18.

At least 98 militants have been killed in Turkey and northern Syria over a week, the Turkish military said March 10.  

Some 71 out of 98 Democratic Union Party (PYD), outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and People's Protection Units (YPG) militants were killed in northern Syria as part of the Turkey-led Euphrates Shield operation, the military said.