Erzurum

Two workers were injured when they were trapped by a landslide which struck a ski-jumping complex in the eastern province of Erzurum on July 6, during the reconstruction of the complex about a year after a collapse in the same area. 

A man living in the eastern province of Erzurum has finally proven he is alive after he was mistakenly listed as dead by Turkey's main social security service provider, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 5.

The U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across America in a historic ruling last week. However, the top court was divided sharply in its 5-4 ruling, with conservative judges like Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts lambasting the decision. Scalia even went as far as to describe it as a ?judicial putsch.?

Turkish police have detained seven suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in an operation in the Turkish provinces of ?zmir, Isparta and Erzurum, police sources said on June 1.

The Turkish government maintains security during the June 7 general elections with a total of 404,000 security personnel.

Some 300,000 police officers will be on duty throughout the day, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said on June 5 in a televised interview, adding that the rest of the personnel will be gendarmerie.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has warned his party's members not to abandon ballot boxes until official results are announced. 

With only few days until the June 7 parliamentary election, the Turkish government has decided to open new departments of riot police and special operations in several provinces. 

Related decisions by the Council of Ministers were published in the official Gazette on the early morning of June 4 and went into force immediately, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

A group of women in eastern Turkey turned their backs on Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s campaign bus in protest, infuriating the increasingly irascible Turkish president on June 1.

An election campaign truck of the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) has been prevented from entering a city square in the eastern province of Erzurum, Do?an News Agency reported on May 29.

Two people, including a soldier, were kidnapped in southeast Turkey on May 18 by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).