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The number of suspects detained over the Ankara car bomb attack has risen to 20 on Feb. 19, according to sources from the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Police have conducted operations in Ankara, Adana, Bolu, Tekirda?, ?zmir, Istanbul, Diyarbak?r and Gaziantep provinces and detained a total of 20 suspects following the deadly attack.

A delegation from the European Parliament's (EP) Socialist Group, including EU Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri, is set to pay a visit Feb. 19 to the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province, where the clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have been ongoing for months. 

Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and two others have been wounded in clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbak?r province where a round-the-clock curfew has been in place since Dec. 2, 2015.

A soldier has been killed and two others wounded in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbak?r province where an ongoing curfew has been in place since Dec. 2, 2015. 

Residents seeking to return to their normal daily lives in southeastern Diyarbak?r province's "devastated" Sur district, which has been the scene of weeks-long military operations against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), will have to wait five or six years, Turkey's main opposition party has said.

A Turkish sub-lieutenant has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a detainee through torture in 1992 in the Bismil district of the southeastern Diyarbak?r province.  

While military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) are coming to an end in the southeastern town of Cizre, they will be intensified in the region's ?dil and Nusaybin districts, according to Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala.

Sixteen outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed on Feb. 8 during Turkish security forces operations in the southeastern provinces.

"Ten terrorists were neutralized during ongoing operations against the members of the separatist terror organization in the Cizre district," the ??rnak Governor's Office said in a statement, referring to PKK militants.

Ten outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed on Feb. 8 during security forces' operation in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak, the ??rnak Governor's Office has announced.

A summary of proceedings against five opposition lawmakers, including the co-chairs of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been sent to the Justice Ministry, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.