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The co-chair of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is set to make an unscheduled trip to Brussels on Aug. 5, his party said, amid reports he will meet representatives of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Selahattin Demirta? of the HDP postponed his scheduled program in Ankara on Aug. 5, daily Hürriyet and AFP reported. 

Seven months ago, Turkish Sergeant Özgür Örs fell into the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a confrontation at the border. He was locked in a room in Syria, only being released after he had passed an alcohol and prayer test. The Turkish army, however, recently discharged him, stating that he did not put up enough resistance against the militants. 

The Turkish army has revealed that scores of Turks have applied to the office of the Chief of General Staff to fight against terrorists after recent terror attacks. 

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants killed at least 12 police and army members since last week, after Turkey launched a two-pronged "war on terror" against PKK and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Here is a chronology of events that started following a suspected ISIL suicide bombing in southeastern Turkey.

July 20

Turkish army has started building a rocket-proof wall, 2.5 meters high and 1 meter wide, on the Syrian border in the southern province of Hatay, with ditches being dug along the borderline, amid spiraling tension near and on the border.

The Turkish Parliament debated recent terror attacks that killed dozens of civilians and security officers in a heated session on July 29, as the Turkish army continues its aerial strikes in northern Iraq and Syria. 

A senior Turkish foreign minister has paid a snap visit to Arbil to hold talks with the leaders of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq after the Turkish army's strikes on outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the region. 

Turkey's state intelligence agency MIT and Istanbul police have warned of possible terror attacks in major cities following military operations against the Islamic State (IS) group and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, todayszaman.com reported on Monday.

The Turkish army?s ongoing military operations in Iraq and Syria to crack down on terrorists was engineered by the Justice and Development Party (AKP), whose objective to regain its one-party government is dragging Turkey into a ?civil war,? the leader of the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirta?, has claimed. 

The Turkish military are not targeting Syrian Kurds after Kurdish forces and a monitoring group said tanks shelled Kurdish-held villages in northern Syria, a Turkish government official said on July 27.