National Gendarmerie

Police and gendarmerie special forces have begun supporting Turkey's ongoing "Operation Olive Branch" in rural areas of Afrin in northwest Syria, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 1, citing security sources. 

Two suspects were detained on Feb. 17 over allegedly organizing dog fights in the southeastern province of Gaziantep, as gendarmerie forces seized 19 dogs, including nine puppies, during a raid.

A total of 603 undocumented migrants were held in Turkey on Feb. 8, state-run Anadolu Agency reported, citing unnamed police and gendarmerie sources. 

The area from which two Roman-era sarcophagi were removed in 2015 and 2016 in the northwestern province of Bursa’s İznik district, known as the “city of the dead” (necropolis), is monitored by police and gendarmerie teams 24/7.

Gendarmerie forces on Dec. 14 seized a historic Viking statue from a man traveling on a bus on the Söke-Milas highway in western Turkey.

The High Court in Belgrade on Friday gave six police officers six-month suspended sentences, with a two-year probation period, for the attack on Aleksandar Vucic's brother during the 2014 Belgrade Pride parade.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım is scheduled to come together with land, naval, air and gendarmerie force commanders separately.

Interior Minister Valentin Radev announced at the Council of Ministers that he has forbidden the appointment of officers in the Ministry of Interior administration until the number of police officers has been filled.

A former intelligence officer has stated that it was the chief prosecutor who ordered Ogün Samast, the killer of Turkish-Armenian journalistHrant Dink in 2007, to be filmed in front of a Turkish flag.

One million bees have been killed in the Aegean province of Manisa after unidentified suspects covered the entrances of beehives with soil on July 29.

The incident occurred in Manisa's Saruhanlı district.

Zafer Şahin, the owner of the beehives, replaced 122 beehives, which had been carrying 10 thousand bees per hive, one month ago in the neighborhood of Lütfiye.