Diyadin

Twenty-one undocumented migrants, including three women, from Afghanistan were injured when a minibus carrying them rolled over into a ditch in the Diyadin district of the eastern province of Ağrı, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Aug. 28. 

Heavy snow has begun to fall as temperatures hit early winter lows in eastern Turkey, hitting daily life for many locals. 

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has ordered the reinstating of a Kurdish name plate in the Diyadin district municipality in the eastern Turkish province of Ağrı, after the plate was removed following Ankara's removal of Diyadin's elected mayor, replaced by a trustee.

A public prosecutor?s office in the eastern province of A?r? has launched an investigation into the killing of two young civilians, amid allegations of extrajudicial execution in a gendarmerie operation that was launched after a terror attack at a district gendarmerie command post.

Even though the eastern province of A?r?'s governorate stated three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had been killed in clashes after PKK members staged an attack on the Gendarmerie Command in the province's Diyadin district, the mayor of the district has claimed two of the dead were actually underage civilians who had nothing to do with the outlawed organization.