Lokman Birlik

After a series of recent controversial incidents, Ankara has sent a communique to the security directors of all 81 provinces across Turkey, stating that "provocateur" policemen damaging the image of the security forces should be punished. 

The Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) has filed a complaint over the notorious dragging of a dead body of an alleged outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militant through the streets of ??rnak in southeast Turkey, also tabling a parliamentary motion addressed to the interior minister.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has ?disapproved? an image tweeted of a corpse tied to the back of a security vehicle being dragged on a street in southeast Turkey where security forces are battling militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers?

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has deplored a tweeted image of a corpse tied to the back of a security vehicle being dragged along a street in southeast Turkey where security forces are battling militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). 

Two soldiers have been abducted by outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in eastern Turkey amid the upsurge in violence in recent months, which has seen scores of security personnel and civilians killed in attacks.