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The Turkish military launched the airstrikes on the targets based on intelligence between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.        
An ammunition depot and shelters in the Kandil Mountains were hit, killing a number of militants inside, said the source, who spoke anonymously due to restrictions on talking to media.        

With rising security concerns due to attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as well as the ongoing conflict between Turkey's security forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an will chair a cabinet meeting on May 2, the sixth one he has called since coming to power. 

A new amendment to a 1999 principle decision to preserve Turkey's archeological sites has enabled the construction of buildings in protected sites in case of a significant disruption of public order and safety or natural disaster. 

One soldier was killed on April 23 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Mardin.

Some six outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, along with a "neighborhood representative" allegedly assigned by PKK founder Cemil Bay?k, have surrendered to security forces in the Yüksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari, security sources said on April 15.  

The Turkish government has made "an urgent expropriation" decision concerning properties in four southeastern provinces.

The death toll of a car bomb attack that targeted police carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on March 31 has risen to eight after a deputy police chief succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on April 5.

A summary of proceedings asking for the removal of the parliamentary immunities of five Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies, including co-chairs Selahattin Demirta? and Figen Yüksekda?, has been submitted to the parliament speaker. 

Turkey's military has killed at least 1,250 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) so far during counter-terrorism operations in the country's southeast, according to numbers compiled from data provided by security sources.

A total of 43 people have been evacuated from various neighborhoods in the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province in the last 24 hours amid ongoing counterterror operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 3.