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President Erdo?an reiterated on March 17 that Turkey has no ?Kurdish problem.? In fact, this is the third time he has changed his mind on the subject and the second time it has happened on the eve of the general elections. Here is a timeline of Erdo?an?s oscillations on the question:

A judge, who is also a member of Greenpeace, has acquitted two shepherds for killing a leopard in southeast Turkey, on the grounds they had killed the animal in self-defense.

Shepherds Kas?m Kaplan and his cousin, Mahmut Kaplan, were on trial for shooting and killing a leopard in the Ç?nar district of Diyarbak?r province in 2013.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has repeated that his country attaches importance and lends support to Turkey?s ongoing peace process aiming to end the three-decade old Kurdish insurgency.

?Peace will contribute to the region. We place importance on the peace process and lend support to it,? Anadolu Agency quoted Bass as saying on March 9.

A non-commissioned officer has been arrested in the southern Turkish province of Hatay for informing the gendarmerie about trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), which were stopped and searched by soldiers two years ago.

Around 15,000 people marched in the southern province of Mersin on Feb. 18 to protest the brutal murder of 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan.

An academic center for the restoration and protection of cultural items has been established by Dicle University in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. The purpose of the center is to give academic and scientific support to cultural structures, especially in Diyarbak?r and the surrounding region.

Referring to the latest electricity supply crisis between grid firm DEDA? and some of Turkey?s southeastern municipalities due to unpaid debts, Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z said Turkey?s southeastern province of Diyarbak?r?s Metropolitan Municipality could not just say they will not pay their debts.

The academic year ended on Jan. 23 and the mid-term break began for nearly 17 million students across Turkey, as the education minister called on families to ?remain tolerant? of their how their children perform in school.

Two men detained as suspected jihadists in the southeastern province of Mardin were actually wearing burqas to disguise themselves in order to visit their girlfriends secretly, police have found.

A number of families of 872 students have decided to leave the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, after the names and personal details of their children were controversially released by a district education office, daily Zaman reported on Jan. 16.