Adana

The first six of 12 U.S. Air Force F-15 jet fighters have arrived at Adana's ?ncirlik Air Base to conduct combat air patrols in Turkish airspace at the request of its government, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook has said.

Turkish General Staff Chief Gen. Hulusi Akar visited airbases in the southern province of Adana and the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r between Nov. 6 and 7, according to the Turkish General Staff.

Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has revived an idea to grant citizenship to foreigners who buy a certain amount of property in the country. 

Thirty-eight foreign nationals have been detained in the southern province of Adana as they reportedly came to the province to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria.

Chief of Turkish General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar has departed for Spain to attend a seventh gathering of the coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) announced Oct. 26. 

A Turkish columnist and programmer was detained on Oct. 19 in the southern province of Adana for an article he wrote about an incident at a religious school in 2014.

Mehmet Faraç, a columnist for daily Ayd?nl?k and a programmer for Halk TV, was detained in the early hours of the morning at his hotel in Adana, where he had come for a television program.

A man kicked a suspicious bag in the southern province of Adana to react to a ?provocation? by police forces during a funeral for Ankara bombing victims.

A group of people, who were allegedly mourning after the twin suicide bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Oct. 10, attacked a wedding in the southern province of Adana, killing one person and wounding two others, after claiming the hosts of the wedding had denied their demand to end the event. 

At least 50 suspects purportedly with links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been detained in anti-terror police operations in multiple provinces of Turkey, with security sources saying ISIL is behind the Ankara bombing that killed more than 90 people and left several hundred wounded.

The funeral of Ufku Demirel, a soldier killed in an attack by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in southeastern Turkey, has been held in Demirel's hometown Tokat, a Central Anatolian province, attended by thousands including Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu.