Adıyaman

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit the southeastern province of Adıyaman on March 2, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has announced.

The quake was followed by aftershocks at magnitudes of 4.2 and 4.4. 

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said Feb. 12 that Turkey has foiled a total of 126 planned terror attacks, including suicide bombings, and seizing explosives and bomb-laden cars in the past five months. 

The first hearing in a sexual abuse case into a student dormitory staff member who is accused of abusing 18 male students was held in the southeastern province of Adıyaman on Feb. 6. 

The death toll from an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack that targeted a police vehicle driving near an excavation site at Dicle University in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has risen to five. 

The National Intelligence Agency (MİT) received intelligence on possible New Year's Eve attacks planned by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Dec. 19 and conducted operations against ISIL suspects between Dec. 28 and 31. 

Two people were killed and another 33 were injured on Nov. 24 when a bomb-laden vehicle parked in the parking lot of the governor's office in the southern province of Adana was detonated.

A soldier, who was wounded in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rocket attack targeting a Turkish tank in Syria, succumbed to his injuries on Sept. 11, marking the eighth Turkish casualty since the launch of the anti-ISIL incursion.

Local authorities in Turkey’s southeastern province of Adıyaman have generated a public outcry for sitting under a comfortable tent during rain-sodden Republic Day celebrations on Oct. 29, while schoolchildren scrambled under tarp to avoid getting wet.

Turkish authorities have confirmed the identity of the suspected suicide bomber, who carried out the attack in Suruc on Monday, which left at least 32 people dead and injured hundreds.

The identity of the suspected Islamic State (IS) attacker was confirmed by a DNA report, Daily Hurriyet informs.

Mount Nemrut, a world-heritage site in the southeastern province of Adıyaman, will be promoted in the virtual environment with android applications.