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The Homeland (Vatan) Party applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) for the cancellation of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s rally in Adana May 29 on the grounds that the party was also scheduled to hold a rally the same day.

A suspect of twin bombings at the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) branches in southern Turkey was previously detained in 2007 for his links to Turkey's outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the Turkish interior ministry said May 21. 

Photos have emerged of the luxury villa that police raided in Turkey's southern province of Adana, detaining 53 suspects - including the ringleader couple - for hosting or attending swinger parties with prostitutes.

One suspect has been identified in the attack on two branches of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in southern Turkey, the Turkish president told reporters May 20, along with an HDP party member's eye-witness claims.

The same man ?planted? bombs at the offices of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in southern Turkey to explode on May 18, according to officials and eyewitnesses who spoke to Hürriyet on May 19.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu promised that a high-speed train will extend to the Central Anatolian province of Karaman and toward eastern Turkey, speaking during a public rally in the city on May 18. 

Davuto?lu vowed that the high-speed train will connect Karaman with the southern province of Adana and the southeastern provinces of ?anl?urfa and ??rnak. 

Bombs have hit two local headquarters of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the southern Turkish of Adana and Mersin, weeks before the June 7 general election. Hidden in a cargo parcel and a gift-packaged flower pot, the two bombs injured at least three people on May 18.

Four prosecutors and one commander, for whom arrest warrants were issued after their halting of Syria-bound National Intelligence Organization (M?T) trucks in Turkey's south last year, have been detained. 

The Tarsus 2nd High Criminal Court ordered the arrest of four prosecutors, along with a commander who ordered the Syria-bound trucks belonging to M?T to be stopped and searched. 

The theater of the ancient city of Magarsus, located in the southern province of Adana's Karata? district, is getting ready to host culture and art events soon. Excavation work has been continuing in the ancient city for two years. 

The team bus of Turkey's top men's handball side was attacked April 10 by unknown individuals who threw stones at its windows, days after a shooting attack on a top flight football club, reports said.
      
The Be?ikta? Mogaz bus was pelted with stones as the players were playing in an away match in the Mediterranean city of Mersin.