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A woman was hit by an armored military vehicle and died on April 27, prompting protests in the restless southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. The police used rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse the furious crowd who had gathered to protest the woman's death. 

A land mine production facility built by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak was destroyed by Turkish security forces on April 23, security sources have said, as counter-terrorism operations continue against the PKK, which most recently carried out a bomb attack that killed two soldiers and wounded three others in the southeastern province of

Eight outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have been killed in the southeastern provinces of Mardin and ??rnak, the Turkish General Staff said on April 24. The militants were killed during clashes between the PKK and Turkish security forces, as operations in the region continued.

An investigation has been launched into 4,900 teachers who participated in a work stoppage action in December 2015 in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, where clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces have continued for months. 

The state housing agency will not be involved in the rebuilding of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r's Sur district, the scene of months-long clashes between security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? has vowed.

The Turkish parliament has adopted a government-led omnibus bill which includes various legal arrangements concerning issues such as rebuilding the conflict-hit Sur district in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, the assertive "Kanal Istanbul" project, which foresees the building of a giant canal on Istanbul's European side to ease the aquatic traffic of the city's busy Bosphorus Strait, t

Europe's human rights commissioner has rung alarm bells over human rights abuses during Turkey's ongoing counter-terrorism operations, particularly in the country's southeast, while painting a gloomy picture of freedom of expression and judicial independence.

A preliminary survey report investigating the Oct. 10 blast in Ankara that killed 103 people, including two suicide bombers, revealed that Turkey's intelligence units were tipped off about imminent suicide bomb attacks targeting rallies 25 days before the explosion. 

Six soldiers were killed and 56 others were wounded in individual attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and in clashes between security forces and the militants in the southeastern provinces of ??rnak, Hakkari,Diyarbak?r and Mardin on April 11 and 12.

Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded, including civilians, on late April 11 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bomb attack in the Hani district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r.

PKK militants detonated a bomb-laden tanker in front of the Hani Gendarmerie Post. An armed clash later erupted between security forces and PKK militants.