Sakarya

Germany has not responded to a diplomatic note from Turkey on Adil Öksüz, one of the key suspects in the cases into the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has stated. 

Jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said his own party has faults in the issue of the problems seasonal workers face, as he commented on the deaths of seven workers in the northwestern province of Sakarya. 

At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured after a tractor carrying nut workers overturned in the Hendek district of the northwestern province of Sakarya on Aug. 18.

The cause of the accident in the Köseköy neighborhood at around 7:25 a.m. was not immediately known.

Turkey might suffer a drought in 2020 or 2021, as the country experiences droughts almost every seven years, Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Eroğlu said on Aug. 7.

Turkish anti-drug squads have seized 1.4 tons of heroin in a poultry farm in the northwestern province of Sakarya in an operation, the governor of Istanbul said on July 26. 

Governor Vasip Şahin told reporters that it was the highest amount of heroin seized in a ground operation in the last 15 years.

Luxurious villas around Lake Sapanca have been threating the natural beauty in the area, with many of the houses being on demand by Arab tourists and investors in the northwestern province of Sakarya. 

Two men who confessed to killing a pregnant Syrian woman and her baby in the northwestern province of Sakarya last week have told officials during their testimonies they also planned to kill the husband before they were caught, daily Milliyet reported on July 8.

Chief Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir took an order over the phone on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt from Special Forces Commander Zekai Aksakallı: "I am giving you a historic duty in the name of our country and nation. Brigadier General Terzi is a traitor, an insurgent. Kill him before he enters the headquarters. There is martyrdom at the end of this. Give your blessing."
 

A pregnant Syrian woman was raped and killed with her 10-month-old baby in the northwestern province of Sakarya on July 6. 

Emani Arrahman, who was nine months pregnant, was kidnapped in Sakarya's Kaynarca district with her baby and was taken to the woods before being brutally murdered. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Turkey’s main opposition party of siding with terrorism, as a three-week “march for justice” led by its chief neared its ending point of Istanbul.