Tunceli

A bustard, the world's heaviest bird species that can fly, which is rarely seen in Turkey, has been found wounded in the eastern province of Tunceli. The bird had a broken leg and was taken into treatment at the Elazığ Veterinary Faculty.

Turkish police detained one of the co-mayors of the eastern province of Siirt, as well as the co-mayors of Tunceli province early on Nov. 16 as part of a terrorism-linked probe. 

Police detained 55 members of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and its local affiliate the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), including senior officials, in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır early on Oct. 11. 

Police raided addresses belonging to party members in an operation conducted across several districts in Diyarbakır, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A local mayor from the Turkish Communist Party (TKP) in eastern Turkey plans to release his municipality's own home-grown "communist honey" onto the market and sell it across Turkey. 

"Those who buy the communist honey will taste good quality honey. They will get a taste of us and will become more communist," Ovacık Mayor Fatih Maçoğlu told Doğan News Agency.

The bones of 11 victims of the Dersim massacre in 1938, including seven children, have been reburied in a ceremony in the current-day eastern province of Tunceli after having been recovered in mass grave excavations a year ago. 

The opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have harshly criticized a draft bill to establish a supervisory commission to oversee law enforcement officers' compliance with the law which was opened for discussion on April 27, as well as its formation within the Interior Ministry.

A funeral has been held in Istanbul for Turkey's veteran lawmaker, Kamer Genç who died from cancer on Jan. 22.

Former Tunceli deputy Kamer Genç died of cancer on Jan. 22. He was 75.

Known for his outspoken character, Genç had been receiving cancer treatment for a while.

Born in 1940 in Tunceli, Genç studied economics and administrative science in Ankara.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is the only political party representing the whole of Turkey, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has stated, claiming that all other parties were "marginalized" in the Nov. 1 general election. 

Two soldiers have been abducted by outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in eastern Turkey amid the upsurge in violence in recent months, which has seen scores of security personnel and civilians killed in attacks.