Kahramanmaraş

Beatings and insults were recently documented as happening in the classroom of a school in Istanbul's Ümraniye district. 

Fish breeding in the dams of the landlocked southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş are exported to 15 countries across the world, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Police in the Aegean province of İzmir are searching for two suspected bombers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) who allegedly arrived in Turkey's third largest city to stage a bomb attack and fled during a police operation.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government long knew about the threat posed by U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who was accused of masterminding the attempted takeover on July 15, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said.

Among the 28,163 teachers dismissed through a state of emergency decree published in Turkey's Official Gazette on Sept. 2, some 3,487 were from Istanbul, more than any other province, daily Habertürk reported on Sept. 15. 

Workers were trapped under a mound of soil after a collapse at a drainage construction site in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş on Dec. 30.

The accident occurred at around 1:30 p.m. during the construction of a drainage pipeline on Gençosman Avenue, which is being built by the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works.

Reza Zarrab, the controversial businessman involved in the bribery claims in Turkey's suppressed graft probe, has withdrawn his defamation case against Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli.

The decision came on Dec. 16, as the court hearing the case awaited documents from Iranian officials on his business ties in the neighboring country. 

A worker died after falling from height at the Afşin-Elbistan coal plant in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş on Oct. 8