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A number of wildfires are still blazing in Turkey but more than 100 have been brought under control, according to officials Sunday.

The Minister of Forestry and Agriculture, Bekir Pakdemirli, tweeted that five fires were continuing in the tourist destinations of Antalya and Mugla but that 107 others had now been subdued.

In Turkey, mosques have a dual spiritual and economic purpose. This surprised me when I first moved to the country more than a decade ago. I expected God and money to be kept separate, at least outwardly, more in keeping with the discreet, cash-in-envelopes Christian churches of my youth.

A man who attempted to enter a square where Newroz celebrations were occurring in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır was shot and killed by police for allegedly trying to enter with a knife, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has harshly reacted to a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy's question on ongoing clashes between the Turkish Armed Forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), after the latter called the militants "guerillas."

A Kurdish militant group has claimed it was behind the attack in Turkey's capital Ankara which killed 37 people last week.

The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons have said on their website (in Kurdish, quoted by the BBC and Reuters) they were targeting security forces and and not intending to kill civilians, adding further casualties would be "inevitable".

Turkey's main opposition party has urged for food and accommodation to be given for those whose homes were destroyed in clashes between Turkish security forces and militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the country's southeastern town of Cizre.

The bodies of hundreds of people killed during clashes between Turkish security forces and militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern town of Cizre are currently being held, with dozens of them rendered unidentifiable because of burns.

Hundreds of explosives have been deactivated and hundreds of barricades and trenches removed during a blanket curfew in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre that came into effect for military operations targeting militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to official sources.

While military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are coming to an end in the southeastern town of Cizre, they will be intensified in the region's ?dil and Nusaybin districts, according to Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala.

Turkish armed forces have carried out military exercise in multiple cities and in Turkish Cyprus, while they joined forces with the police in a counter terrorism exercise held in the eastern province of Van amid ongoing clashes in the country's southeast.