Avcılar

An armed robbery took place in a private bank in Avcılar district of Istanbul province.

The robbery occurred at 14:00 and police teams were dispatched to the scene.

A person who came to the bank as a customer pointed his gun at the bank officer and asked for the money.

The suspect, who took the money, fled the scene on foot, according to reports.

The Leyla Bayram Primary School in Istanbul's Avcılar district on the European side had its busiest day on the day of the June 23 local elections.

A mobile library with aims to bring local and refugee children together has been receiving great interest at its second stop in Istanbul, in the district of Avcılar.

A local banned by the villagers in the western province of Balıkesir's Edremit district has been claimed to have initiated a series of forest fires that have recently raged across the Mount Ida (Kaz Dağları) area.

A total of 212 kilograms of cocaine were seized from a ship which was anchored in a harbor in Istanbul on June 13, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Anti-drug police conducted the search on a ship which was anchored in Ambarlı Harbor in Istanbul's Avcılar district following a tipoff.

A total of 38 people were detained in Istanbul over protesting the Supreme Election Board's (YSK) last-minute decision to accept unstamped ballots as valid in the April 16 constitutional referendum.

Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) provincial manager Mesut Geçgel is among those detained in an operation carried out by anti-terror police on April 19, daily Birgün reported. 

Protests against the results of the April 16 constitutional referendum continued on April 18 in Turkey, as protesters declared that controversial amendments had been rejected, while accusing the Supreme Election Board (YSK) of meddling with the results due to the latter's last-minute decision to accept unstamped ballots as valid.

Archaeological excavations carried out on the coast of the Küçükçekmece Lake in Istanbul's Avcılar district by Kocaeli University aim to shed light on the history of earthquakes in Istanbul. 

A fire captain who became trapped under a collapsed roof while fighting a fire in Istanbul last year died after 10 tons of water was dumped onto him from a fire helicopter belonging to the municipality, an expert's report has revealed.

Two incidents involving guns on the same day on a member and a building of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) have raised concerns among party members.