Hakkari

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the Republican People's Party (CHP) headquarters for the first time in 18 years on June 11 to meet with the main opposition leader Özgür Özel.

This visit follows Özel's earlier meeting with Erdoğan at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters on May 2, marking the first such interaction between the AKP and CHP leaders since 2016.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has backed the dismissal and subsequent prison sentence of Hakkari Mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış on terrorism-related charges.

The suspended mayor of Hakkari from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Mehmet Sıddık Akış, has been sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison on terrorism-related charges.

The sentencing concludes a case that has been ongoing since 2014.

More than a dozen legislators from Turkey's pro-Kurdish party staged a demonstration in parliament on Tuesday to denounce the arrest and expulsion from office of a newly elected mayor, Turkish media reported.

Hakkari Mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has been dismissed from his post following his apprehension as part of an investigation into his alleged ties with the PKK terrorist organization.

Livestock breeders across Türkiye are grappling with a shortage of shepherds, exacerbating concerns within the already-strained livestock sector.

Despite offering monthly salaries ranging from 35,000 to 60,000 Turkish Liras ($1,090-$1,860), plus expenses, advertisements for shepherds remain unanswered, prompting breeders to seek solutions in hiring foreign shepherds.

An eight-year-old girl from the Yüksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari, who recently became known after reports that her father had made a makeshift Bosphorus Bridge model for her, has realized her dream of seeing the bridge after coming to Istanbul on June 19.

At least 235 people, including local executives of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were detained on Dec. 12 in 11 Turkish provinces as part of a major probe launched into the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

A court in the eastern province of Hakkari on Oct. 9 ordered the arrest of a police officer over an incident that led to the death of four civilians, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Civilians at a furniture store in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari were hit after a machine gun on the top of an armored police vehicle opened fire while patrolling on Oct. 8.

Two soldiers were killed in an attack conducted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Oct. 3, during the passage of a military vehicle in the Yüksekova district of the eastern province of Hakkari.

PKK militants remotely detonated a handmade explosive placed in the Kamışlı village near Geçkan district.