Derik

Turkey launched an operation early on Feb. 22 against the PKK terrorist organization in southeastern Mardin province.

The city governorate announced that the anti-terror operation will take place in a total of 18 neighborhoods in the towns of Mazıdağı, Derik and Kızıltepe.

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The Mardin Chief Prosecutor's Office issued a detention warrant on Dec. 13 against senior outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) figures Murat Karayılan and Duran Kalkan, as part of the investigation into the killing of Derik District Governor Muhammet Fatih Safitürk.   

The Turkish Interior Ministry reshuffled 616 local officials with a decree issued on Dec. 1, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Some 369 district governors and 106 deputy governors were appointed to new posts, while 75 district governors and deputy governors were reassigned as provincial legal advisers, according to the decree.

Seven militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in military operations in the southeastern town of Derik, a district in the southeastern province of Mardin, while one soldier was killed and another was injured.

The southeastern town of Nusaybin has become a post-war battlefield after a 13-day curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, while a new curfew was imposed on the southeastern town of Derik, Do?an News Agency has reported.