Siirt

With the arrival of spring, the unique inverted tulips, also known as the"weeping bride," have begun to bloom in the southeastern province of Siirt, catching the attraction of shutterbugs as it embellishes the city's mountains and gardens with their splendid beauty.

Türkiye is grappling with extreme weather emergencies as torrential rains once again cause floods in the southern quake-hit province of Hatay's Iskenderun district, while heavy snowfall forces schools to close in nine out of all 81 provinces in the country.

Upon the allegations that there was a sound coming from underground in two villages of the southeastern province of Siirt, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) has started to conduct an investigation with seismic devices 100 meters below the ground.

Turkish Intelligence Organization (MİT) has captured Dilbirin Kaçar, a PKK assassin codenamed "Rojda," in Syria and brought him to Turkey.

"Kaçar was detained in a MİT operation in northern Syria's Aleppo province's Ayn al-Arab district," Demirören News Agency reported on June 7.

An endangered weasel has been released back into its natural habitat after being treated by locals in Turkey's eastern province of Siirt.

Believed to have been hungry and fallen exhausted due to heavy snowfall in the region a while ago, the weasel was found by Nureddin Yeşilfidan, a villager living in the province's Baykan district.

Turkish police on Dec. 4 found an explosive device attached to the undercarriage of a private car belonging to a police officer, who was assigned to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's program in southeastern Siirt province.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) must distance itself from the terrorist PKK, Meral Akşener, the leader of the opposition İYİ (Good) Party, has said.

"We have been stressing this for months: We put the HDP next to the PKK," Akşener said during her party's parliamentary group meeting yesterday, suggesting the HDP has close ties to the terror organization.

Tombstones with inverted triangle ornaments that have been found in the historical Hasankeyf district of the southeastern province of Batman are believed to be unique to the district.

The number of people, who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, in Turkey is not yet high enough to fight the pandemic, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has warned as the coronavirus cases are on the rise again in major cities.

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Turkey has surpassed a 60 million-dose mark in the number of COVID-19 vaccines administered in its inoculation campaign that began in mid-January.

According to data from the country's Health Ministry, well over 38 million people have been given their first doses of the injection, while more than 18 million people have been fully vaccinated against the deadly virus.