Mustafa Büyük

A total of five patients with swine flu-like symptoms have died in the first week of 2016 in two Turkish provinces, as authorities have urged for calm, stressing the definitive causes of death were yet to be determined. 

A 3-month-old baby has been killed alongside her grandfather in the southeastern province of ??rnak after being struck by a bullet at home, after which her grandfather was also shot dead trying to rush the baby to an ambulance. 

A group of armed men reportedly opened fire and chanted anti-alcohol slogans at an annual rak? festival in the southern province of Adana on Dec. 12.

The group fired into the air with shotguns and threatened festivalgoers, who escaped in panic from the streets of the Kazanc?lar Bazaar of Adana's Yüre?ir district, where the festival was being celebrated.

In the past few weeks, Turkey has had two controversies relating to alcoholic beverages. First, the Institute for Regulating the Tobacco and Alcohol Market, an official body, released a ruling which banned traditional "New Year's baskets" from including any alcoholic beverages. These baskets are either sold in markets, or distributed by companies as gifts, as a means to celebrate New Year's.

The name of an upcoming annual street festival in the southern province of Adana has been changed amid controversy over its use of the word "rak?," a Turkish anise-based alcoholic drink consumed at the festival along with local foods and beverages. 

Two police officers who were killed on Sept. 28 in a gun attack in the Seyhan district of the southern Adana province were laid to rest on Sept. 29, with their relatives criticizing the government?s shifted stance on the Kurdish peace process.

Two police officers were killed on Sept. 28 in a gun attack in the Seyhan district of the southern Adana province, marking the second attack targeting police officers in the province in two months.

An armed attack on a police station in the southern Turkish province of Adana left two police officers and two Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants dead.

Around eight PKK militants armed with long-barreled guns attacked the police station in the town of Pozanti early on Friday.

Two police officers were killed in a gun attack on a police station in the southern province of Adana that also left two militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) dead.

Around eight PKK militants carried out an armed attack early July 31 on the Pozant? Police Department with long-barreled guns. An armed conflict ensued as police officers responded to the fire.

?pek Yezdani ipek.yezdani@hurriyet.com.tr Main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) deputy candidate Elif Do?an Türkmen was wounded in an armed attack at around 9 a.m. on May 26 in a restaurant in the southern province of Adana, Do?an News Agency has reported.