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The U.S. Department of State has issued a travel warning over marches on Turkey's Republic Day on Oct. 29.

"The U.S. Embassy Ankara informs U.S. citizens that several political groups have announced that their supporters will march in Ankara from the old Parliament building in Ulus to the Anitkabir mausoleum on Oct. 29, 2016.

The U.S. Department of State issued an update to its travel warning to Turkey on Oct. 24 over "increased terror threats from terrorist groups" across the country.

The National Intelligence Agency (MİT), the Defense Ministry, the Turkish General Staff and other security commands will be moved to the Etimesgut district of Ankara, as a part of measures taken after the failed July 15 coup attempt, daily Habertürk reported on Oct. 4. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has voiced praise for the people who poured out onto the street to resist an attempted coup in the Kazan district of Ankara while also vowing to continue to "chase" the perpetrators of the July 15 coup attempt.

Around 32,000 people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the failed coup of July 15, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has announced, while hinting at the possibility that new courtrooms might be built in some places based on necessity.

The Turkish government has completed the removal of military units from city centers, including Istanbul and the capital Ankara, as part of measures taken in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt of July 15. 
The relocation process has included key military divisions in the capital with their tanks, armored vehicles, and all their military equipment. 

Police in Ankara on Sept. 8 detained the lawyer of a former Adana Public Chief prosecutor and two other prosecutors who are currently under arrest for ordering the 2014 stop and search of Turkish intelligence service trucks bound for Syria with the alleged purpose of arming Syrian rebels, a claim denied by government officials. 

A poison recipe was found in a house belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra militants in Ankara, according to an indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's Bureau of Crimes Investigation Committed against the Constitutional Order.

Turkish authorities detained numerous Islamic State (IS) suspects in large-scale anti-terrorist operations carried out across the country after the deadly suicide attack in Istanbul on Tuesday.

The suicide bomber, who was identified as a Syrian linked to IS, blew himself up in the popular tourist area of Sultanahmet square in central Istanbul on Tuesday morning.

An Ankara court on Jan. 1 ruled arrests of two Turkish men suspected of belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and planning a double suicide bombing in the capital on New Year's Eve.