Mardin

In the medieval Turkish city of Mardin, Medine Ereli calls out to a team of medical workers walking along the town's cobblestoned main street. Her 59-year old husband refuses to get vaccinated, she tells the doctor and nurse, before leading them to Enver Ereli, who's on the job as a municipal sanitation worker.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Feb. 24 met with David McAllister, chair of the EU Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and a committee delegation in the capital Ankara. 

"Met with President David McAllister and [committee] delegation," Çavuşoğlu said in a tweet.

A stray puppy brought from the southeastern province of Mardin to Istanbul early July for an emergency medical operation after its two legs were injured with a shotgun is now recovering. 

Prosecutors in the Mediterranean province of Antalya have ordered the detention of 72 fans who have allegedly been involved in violence on charges of "organized crime" during a game between Göztepespor and Eskişehirspor on June 4 to qualify for the top-tier football league.

A man living in the southeastern province of Mardin's Derik district has been making walkers and prosthetic limbs with his own means from various materials to help disabled animals walk again. 

There is no limit to the type of animal that Hasan Kızıl, 22, creates the artificial legs for, from domestic animals such as cats and dogs to non-domestic animals such as chickens. 

Turkey, under the leadershipi of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has seized roughly 50 churches and monasteries and declared them state properties.

The Islamization of Turkey continues, as the country moves more and more into the camp of anti-Christian.

Outreach to Muslims? At your peril, it seems.

According to a Turkish local newpaper:

Turkey tops the list of refugee hosting countries in the world, hosting 2.9 million of the world's 65 million refugees, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated on June 20.

Most of the refugees hosted by Turkey are from Syria and Iraq, with the UNHCR putting the number of Iraqi refugees in Turkey at around 30,000. 

Excavations being carried out in the Zerzevan Castle in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Çınar district have unearthed a Mithraea, an underground temple where a pre-Christian cult gathered and performed rituals 1700 years ago.
 

Governorate allowed for Newroz celebration in ssouthern east province of Diyarbakır on March 18, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Newroz celebration will be organized on March 21 between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. by People's Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP).

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani met with Ahmet Türk, the ousted co-mayor of Mardin for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and Ağrı Co-Mayor Sırrı Sakık, on Feb. 27 to discuss the shattered peace process in Turkey.