Aksaray, Istanbul

Police in the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray early on Oct. 7 detained an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant who was the suspected perpetrator a bomb attack in Istanbul near a police station, which wounded 10, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

An Istanbul prosecutor's office has launched an investigation against a journalist on the charge of "fabricating false documents" after he got a fake passport while reporting on how to get a fake passport.

At least 26 police officers were wounded in an explosion in Istanbul's Aksaray neighborhood on Sept. 20.

Hürriyet photojournalist Murat ?aka spent a year in the notorious streets of Istanbul?s Aksaray and Kumkap? neighborhoods to document the life of African sex workers. Here he tells their stories: Table of wolves