Doğan News

Over 300 people of Afghan and Syrian origin were evacuated from an Istanbul neighborhood on May 16 amid rising tension after the killing of a local man by a foreign resident on May 14, Doğan News agency has reported.

A school janitor in the Derik district of the southeastern province of Mardin has been arrested over claims of sexually abusing 50 girls aged between eight and 12, Doğan News agency has reported.

The incident unfolded after one of the victims told her family that she was sexually abused by the janitor, 43, identified only by the initials M.Ş.Y., in her school. 

An injured otter, whose species is on the most protected list in Turkey, was found injured in the Munzur National Park in the eastern province of Tunceli on March 16 and taken in for treatment, Doğan News agency has reported.

Four people were injured following a brawl between locals and Syrians in the southern province of Adana late on Feb. 27, Doğan News agency has reported.

The brawl erupted for an unknown reason between neighborhood residents and Syrians who reside in tents in the Bahçelievler neighborhood of Yüreğir district.

A man who took his four children and his girlfriend hostage in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa was neutralized with anesthetic juice after a 28-hour hostage situation on Feb. 12, Doğan News agency has reported.

The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded 230 years in prison for ousted Diyarbakır Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak on claims of "being the founder and executive of an armed terrorist group" and "making propaganda for a terrorist organization," Doğan News agency reported on Nov. 29. 

A freight train and a shunting train collided in the Divriği district of the Central Anatolian province of Sivas on Oct. 17, injuring four engine drivers, Doğan News agency has reported.

The freight train carrying iron ore collided with the shunting train while en route to the southern port of İskenderun.