Cilicia

Leading religious figures from the Christian and Muslim communities in the southern province of Mersin have sung prayers together for all the deceased regardless of their religions in the Mersin City Cemetery.

Adana Mayor Hüseyin Sözlü announced on Sept. 8 the opening and closing ceremonies of the 22nd Golden Boll Film Festival, to be held between Sept. 14 and 20 in the southern province of Adana, have been canceled because of the recent terror attacks in the country. All festival events were also canceled.

Two VICE News journalists who were released from prison on Sept. 3 after being arrested in Turkey's southeast on charges of having links to a terrorist organization will be deported from the country, Do?an News Agency has reported. 

Syrian migrants in Turkey have begun establishing homes in Turkey, helping the home appliance sector to flourish during a downturn that traditionally accompanies an election period, said the head of a sector association. 

The doyen of Turkish archaeology, Professor Halet Çambel, who died on Jan. 12 last year aged 98, was honored by Google with a doodle for her birthday on Aug. 27. 

Turkish police have raided a political party headquarters in southern Turkey, detaining seven people, including the party's provincial head, for gambling.

Three Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been arrested in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtal?k district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.

A total of 29 people suspected of being part of a prostitution ring notorious for organizing swinger parties in Turkey's southern province of Adana are facing up to 177 years in prison on charges including "prostitution," "organizing a crime syndicate" and "human trafficking."

The four prosecutors who ordered the stopping and searching of Syria-bound intelligence trucks in January 2014 and were later arrested on charges of attempting to topple the government, were transferred to Ankara late Aug. 2, from Turkey's southern district of Tarsus. 

Eight officials from a political party along with 87 others have been fined for gambling after police raided the office of a party in the southern province of Adana late July 28, less than a year after police raided the same location on similar allegations.