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Police detained one demonstrator on May 3 as part of a legal process initiated against a group of demonstrators who took off their clothes during a police body search as they were entering the May 1 celebration area in the Aegean province of ?zmir.

A total of 100 suspects, including pharmacists, medics and nurses, were detained for issuing fake prescriptions on May 2 during operations across the country.

The government's "urgent expropriation" decision over four badly damaged southeastern cities amounts to "punishment" of locals for their "disobedience," Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekda? has said. 

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he does not wear a bulletproof vest during trips around Turkey, stressing that he visited the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r last week without a security vest just one day after seven police officers were killed and dozens were wounded in a bomb attack blamed on militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The European Union reiterated its solidarity with Turkey "in fighting terrorism and violence," in the wake of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack which killed seven police officers in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r on March 31. 

Heavy machinery crashed into the wall of a school and caused it to collapse in the central Ba?lar district of Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbak?r, leaving two children dead and one injured on March 30.

The machinery crashed into the Turgut Özal Elementary School in the Benusen neighborhood of Ba?lar, according to reports. 

Turkish security forces have stepped up vehicle and personnel deliveries to the southeastern towns of Yüksekova and Nusaybin, after curfews in both were declared on March 13 ahead of large-scale operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will pay an official visit to Turkey next week in order to study measures adopted by the government to counter enforced disappearances.

Turkey has killed hundreds of militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as counter-terrorism operations ended in two southeastern towns that had been under weeks-long military curfews.

A call for a march in protest against the blanket curfew in the Sur district of the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r did not draw a notable reaction on March 2, with only a small group of youngsters staging a demonstration that was later subjected to a police crackdown.