Turkey's police

With a recent observational study conducted by daily Milliyet at various busy points of Istanbul, Turkey's largest city with more than 4 million registered vehicles, evaluations have been made whether drivers yield to pedestrians' right to pass.

In a first, a Turkish-trained Afghan female police officer has taken charge of an anti-crime branch in Afghanistan's remote Khost province.
The young Zala Zazai got training at Turkey's police academy before taking charge in the province, which has been plagued by the Taliban-led insurgency.

Athens has lodged a demarche with Ankara over its presentation of a section of Greek territory in the southern Evros border region as Turkish, diplomatic sources said on Friday.

The decision was taken by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.

Athens is reportedly considering whether to lodge a demarche with Ankara over its presentation of a section of Greek territory in the Evros border region as Turkish. 

The head of the Turkish Prime Ministry Inspection Board has asked for two key names to be removed from the report on the killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, one of the inspectors who prepared the report has said. 

Ali Fuat Yılmazer, the former head of Turkey's police intelligence branch, has given his testimony in the 31st hearing into the 2007 killing of Armenian-origin Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, saying the killing was "deliberately not prevented" and security authorities in Istanbul and Trabzon were responsible. 

Turkey's fight against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorism has created some interesting undercurrents and deep tides in society that cannot be overlooked. Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov's assassination is a watershed event in terms of the security apparatus or lack thereof. 

A strong explosion on Tuesday morning in Istanbul, Turkey, killed seven police officers and four civilians, according to local officials.

The target was a bus transporting members of Turkey's police force, Turkish media said, adding that 36 more persons were injured in the blast in the Vezneciler district.

Turkey's intelligence agency had posted two recent warnings to all security units in the country over possible attacks on tourists in Turkey along with foreign mission buildings and other foreigners, daily Hürriyet has learned.  

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, sent to prison over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, was sent to prison late on Feb. 27 over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, according to police sources.