Mardin Governor's Office

New findings that have been unearthed during excavations in the ancient city of Dara in the southeastern province of Mardin reveal that the historical site had been an important olive production and trade center.

The governor's office in the southeastern province of Mardin has cancelled its decision dating back to 2014 to allocate churches and monasteries belonging to Syriac Christians to the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Doğan News Agency reported on July 5.

One Turkish soldier was killed in a clash with outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of Mardin late on June 7, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

Ongoing operations in areas of the southeastern province of Mardin are proceeding "within legal boundaries," the local governor's office has claimed amid growing concern following allegations of human rights abuses in one village.

Police have seized a rocket launcher for the first time in an operation targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin. 

The METİS M1 surface-to-surface and surface-to-air rocket launcher was confiscated along with other ammunition in the same raid. 

The ousted mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, was arrested on "terror" charges on Nov. 24, becoming the latest Kurdish politician to be arrested.

A total of six security personnel were killed and 12 were wounded in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Nusaybin and Midyat districts of the southeastern province of Mardin and the Ovacık district of the eastern province of Tunceli on May 26.

One soldier was killed and 10 others were wounded on early May 4 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack in the southeastern province of Mardin.

A land mine production facility built by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak was destroyed by Turkish security forces on April 23, security sources have said, as counter-terrorism operations continue against the PKK, which most recently carried out a bomb attack that killed two soldiers and wounded three others in the southeastern province of

Operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Mardin's Nusaybin district are progressing slower than expected because the local governor's office disallowed operation requests in September 2015, delaying the necessary response to a PKK build-up, security officials have said.