Diyarbakır Governor's Office

Turkish security forces have apprehended over 260 people, including a suspect linked to a recently prohibited rally in the southern province of Diyarbakır, on charges of affiliation with the PKK terrorist organization, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Oct. 15.

Security units seized some 333,000 roots of cannabis sativa and at least 110 kilograms (nearly 250 pounds). of marijuana in eastern Turkey, authorities said on June 8. 

At least five villagers were killed in southeastern Turkey on April 8 by the terrorist organization PKK, said the local governorship.

Roadside explosives planted by the terror group hit a vehicle carrying forest workers in the rural town of Güleç in the Kulp district, said the Diyarbakır Governor's Office in a statement.

Following the discovery of an underground temple, a closed secret passage and a subterranean sanctuary in the Zerzevan Castle in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Çınar district, four other ancient locations from the Roman era were unearthed this year in Çınar.

Two soldiers were killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 1. 

Two soldiers were killed in an anti-terror operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Bitlis on June 22, the Turkish General Staff has said.      

Administrative and legal investigations have been launched into two traffic accidents involving armored police vehicles that led to the deaths of seven civilians in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

The Diyarbakır Governor's Office stated that an inspector has asked to be assigned to the case from the Interior Ministry, Doğan News Agency reported. 

Deputy Parliament Speaker and Kurdish-issue focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul lawmaker Pervin Buldan has testified in court in a case filed into her over "being a member of an armed terrorist organization" in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

A total of 54 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were "neutralized" in security forces operations across Turkey over the past week, the Interior Ministry stated on May 29.

Authorities use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply the militants in question were either killed, wounded or captured. 

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.