Ceyhan

In excavations at Tatarlı Höyük, which served as an uninterrupted settlement in the southern province of Adana from the Neolithic Age to the Early Roman period, an area used for the storage of food in the Middle Iron Age has been unearthed.

A fault line formed on the coast of Hatay's Arsuz district due to a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shaking Adana's Ceyhan district in 1998 has become the home of sea creatures.

The fault line, which is approximately a kilometer long, acts as a natural reef 13 to 18 meters below the sea and 15 to 20 meters from the coast.

The municipal council of Ceyhan district in Turkey's southern province of Adana has revoked the town twinning protocol with Frisco city in the United States over the disputes between the two countries.

One soldier and one police officer were killed on Feb. 9 during operations conducted against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Cizre district of the southeastern ??rnak province.

One police officer and one soldier have succumbed to their injuries sustained eight days ago in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey's southeastern provinces of ??rnak and Diyarbak?r.

Turkey has played a key role in transferring Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) oil to the international market, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said on Aug. 15.

?The oil transfer couldn?t have materialized if Turkey was not involved because the central government in Baghdad did not allow it,? Y?ld?z said, speaking to visiting reporters from the Iraqi Kurdish region in Ankara.