Hakkari

Turkish warplanes have targeted outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants as they were installing explosives in the southeastern province of Hakkari. 

Three militants were killed as they were installing home-made explosives on a road in the Şemdinli district on March 27. 

Turkey's elderly population has risen by 17.1 percent over the past five years, according to statistics released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) on March 16. 

TÜİK stated that the population of people over 65 years old in Turkey had risen to 6,651,503 in 2016, up from 5,682,003 in 2012. 

Security forces have started an operation after a clash occurred between outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants and Turkish security forces in the southeastern province of Hakkari, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have detonated explosives during the passage of a cargo train in the Bağıvar neighborhood of the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

Turkey has been carrying out air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq in order to stop militants from infiltrating into Turkey when the weather conditions improve and as a part of security measures for the upcoming referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidency.

Ongoing operations in areas of the southeastern province of Mardin are proceeding "within legal boundaries," the local governor's office has claimed amid growing concern following allegations of human rights abuses in one village.

House sales in Turkey increased in a modest trend by 4 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year reaching 1.3 million, although sales to foreigners dropped sharply, according to a fresh data from the Turkish Statistics Institute (TÜİK).

Sales to foreigners declined by 20.3 percent compared to the previous year, dropping to 18,189. 

The total number of the "neutralized" militants in northern Syria since the ongoing Turkey-led Operation Euphrates Shield was launched last Aug., is at least 2,085, according to the latest data of the Turkish military. 

1,775 of these neutralized are ISIL militants, the weekly statement of the Turkish general staff said. 

A hotel formed for pregnant women in the eastern province of Hakkari has become an important sanctuary in the face of the frequently bad weather in the province. 

The "mother hotel" has served a total of 907 women ahead of birth who might not be able to reach a hospital in time due to bad weather that often closes roads.

The families of police officers and members of the military are on a constant state of alert. Not a day passes by when a police officer or soldier does not fall as a martyr. The sorrow is shared by the whole nation but it is the families who suffer the most.