Diyarbakır

A woman who was forced into a religious marriage with her rapist at the age of 17 in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır will return to high school, following an intervention from the Education Ministry and the Family and Social Policies Ministry. 

Police detained a man on Aug. 19 after he attacked a statue of Atatürk in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Doğan News Agency has reported. The 30-year-old man identified as İbrahim Yeşil climbed to the pedestal of the statue in the Şeyh Said Square at 2.30 p.m. and began to pound it with a hammer. His motive was not clear.

Security forces killed at least five outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in eastern and southeastern Turkey, the military and security sources said on Aug. 19.

Excavations in Körtik Hill (Körtik Tepe) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Bismil district have unearthed more than 30,000 artifacts in 17 years.

Within the scope of the work to rescue the artifacts that will remain underwater in the Ilısu Dam, excavations have been ongoing in Körtik Hill since 2000 under the leadership of the Diyarbakır Museum. 

A judge in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 15 voiced her opposition to a local court ruling that acquitted two men charged with raping an 18-year-old woman.

The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) started on Aug. 15 its "justice and conscience watch" in the Aegean province of İzmir, after holding the watch in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Istanbul, and the eastern province of Van, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A group of musicians in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır have launched a protest on receiving fake foreign currency notes as tips while playing at weddings and have demanded to be paid regular wages by wedding organizers.

The Turkish Athletic Federation's discovery of Meryem Bekmez's remarkable skills in athletics at the age of 12 saved her from getting married at a young age.

"She would have been married off like her sister, or would be working on the field," said her father Hacı Bekmez, had she not been "discovered" yet.

The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has started its "conscience and justice watch" in Istanbul's Kadıköy district with the participation of several lawmakers. 

The Kurdish issue-focused HDP started its watch on Aug. 1 in Kadıköy's Yoğurtçu Park after spending a week in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

Two soldiers were killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Aug. 1.