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A Turkish court has withdrawn an order to conduct an on-site investigation into a 1993 incident in which nine family members were allegedly burned to death by the military, announcing that it wanted to finish the case "inexpensively" and "as soon as possible."

The ceramic pieces and city walls that were unearthed during the works on Salkımlı village road in the southeastern province of Batman have been discovered to be from the medieval ages.

A young man who entered a military post without permission in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been shot and wounded by soldiers. The man, identified only as R.K., was taken to hospital soon after the incident, which came as rising tensions in the region spilled over into protests.