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An Iraqi group of five people, who were on their way to a private hospital in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, were killed in an armed attack on early Jan. 19 in the neighboring province of Mardin.

The perpetrators of the armed attack on the jeep, which set off from Iraq's Duhok Governorate, followed the vehicle from the Habur Border Gate, according to the local media.

Some 100 Yezidi families, who plan to repatriate to the southeastern province of Mardin from Europe after four decades, have found themselves in a "road battle" with Assyrians living in the nearby village.

Turkish security forces on Feb. 24 detained five YPG/PKK terrorists during simultaneous operations in northern Syria, the Defense Ministry said.

The terrorists were plotting terror attack while hiding in houses in Tal Abyad, a Syrian district which falls within the area of Turkey's anti-terror "Operation Peace Spring," the ministry said in a statement.

A wanted YPG/PKK terrorist was neutralized in a counter-terrorism operation in eastern Turkey, the country's Interior Ministry's said on Feb. 8.

Turkish authorities use the term "neutralized" to imply that the terrorist in question either surrendered or was killed or captured.

Terrorist Ömer Oran, also known as Bager, was on the ministry's most wanted list.

Three Turkish soldiers were lightly injured in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sept. 10.

PKK militants attacked military base areas in Hakkari's Şemdili province with mortars from the Iraqi border, according to the Hakkari Governorate Office.  

Four soldiers and one police officer have been killed in a bomb attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin.

Turkey's development minister has paid a visit to the southeastern town of Silopi, which has seen severe damage during recent clashes between security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants.

The Turkish Chief of General Staff announced on Jan.2 that a total of 261 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the ongoing operations in three southeastern districts under curfew.

Did you see that photograph? It was not from Vietnam and the people in the photograph were not Vietnamese trying to escape American soldiers. Nor were they Turkish Cypriots running away from the Nikos Sampson-led Greek Cypriot hordes paid by Athens to annex the island to Greece. They were Turkish citizens trying to escape from a curfew to be imposed on their town within hours?

A curfew ended in Yüksekova in the southeastern province of Hakkari at 6 a.m. on Nov. 23, according to the Hakkari Governor's Office.

A curfew was declared on Nov. 20 from 8 p.m. in the region, "due to escalating terror events, in order to reassure peace and security."