Yüksekova

Following the successive earthquakes in Hakkari's Yüksekova district, located in southeastern Türkiye, experts have once again reiterated warnings over future risks in the region.

Earthquakes of 4.4, 3.5 and 4.5 magnitude occurred successively in Yüksekova on Dec. 31, causing fear and panic among the residents.

In a bid to curb illegal migration and enhance border security, the construction of a modular concrete wall along the Van-Iran border line has reached a significant milestone, with 96 kilometers already completed.

Thousands of women pushed pedals across the world as part of a global-scale campaign to give more visibility to women in society and to demand cycle-friendly cities.

In a bid to make their job easy, villagers in the southeastern province of Hakkari's Yüksekova district have come up with an innovative method of using a 3,000-meter-long zipline to transport hay bales collected from mountains to their villages during the summer months.

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A local man living in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari's Yüksekova district has built a small snow model replicating Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, for his daughter who was not able to visit the iconic site.

A total of 17 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed in Turkey's southeast on July 10 and 11. 

Eight PKK militants, who the military stated were on the verge of planning an attack, were killed in airstrikes early on July 11 in the Dargeçit district of the southeastern province of Mardin.

Four civilians were killed and another was wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari on July 8. 

PKK militants stopped two lorries and two automobiles of a convoy carrying engineering vehicles in Hakkari's Yüksekova district.

The Turkish Air Forces has carried out large counter-terrorism operations in the country's southeastern provinces and in northern Iraq over the past two days, killing at least 12 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.         

A district head from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been attacked in a grocery store in the Yüksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari.

AKP Yüksekova district head Müslüm Ortaay was attacked by four people while he was shopping, Doğan News Agency reported. 

Turkey's Directorate General of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez has offered replacing the funeral march with Quran verses or an Ottoman hymn during the funerals of the fallen soldiers, as he cited letters from the families of the victims.