Anti-Terror Bureau
Police chief shot in the head by coup soldiers wakes up after five months in intensive care
Turgut Aslan, the head of the Turkish police's Anti-Terror Bureau, is gradually returning to life after spending five months in intensive care, where he was taken after being shot in the head by soldiers on the night of the attempted coup on July 15, 2016, daily Habertürk reported on Feb. 24.
Three detained over PKK attack in Turkey's Diyarbakır
Three people were detained in conneciton to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, as the death toll of the Jan. 16 attack rose to four.
Four police officers were killed and two others were wounded on Jan. 16 in a PKK bomb attack targeting an armored police vehicle in Diyarbakır's Sur district.