Turkish Gendarmerie

Turkish gendarmerie forces have detained a total of 11 people, including the co-mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin's Maz?da?? district, in operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population, has so far spent $7.6 billion caring for 2.2 million Syrians who have fled strife in the Arab republic, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? said Sept. 18.

Dalibor Djordjevic, a member of the Serbian Gendarmerie special police unit, told the Higher Court in Belgrade on Monday that the prime minister's brother Andrej Vucic hit him in the face while trying with three companions to break through police lines during a gay pride parade on September 28, 2014.

Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z recently attracted a lot of reaction when he declared: ?I want to be a martyr.?

Mehmet Alkan, a member of the Turkish Gendarmerie who lost his brother, was one of those who reacted, saying at his brother?s funeral: ?You can?t say you want to be a martyr and then walk around with an armored guard surrounded by 30 body guards.?

Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YA?) convened for its regular annual meeting on Aug. 3 to discuss appointments and retirements of high-ranking staff officers and generals in the Turkish Armed Forces, as well as for the removal of military personnel from the army. 

The Supreme Military Council (YA?) will convene for a regular annual meeting on Aug. 3 to discuss appointments and retirements in the top echelons of the Turkish Armed Forces amid ongoing cross-border operations in Iraq and Syria.

Twelve Iraqis have been detained in Turkey's southern province of Hatay while attempting to illegally cross the Turkish-Syrian border in the wake of violent attacks near and on the border in recent weeks.

Turkish gendarmerie forces have retreated from a road construction area in the Black Sea province of Rize after locals organized a sit-in to hinder the controversial project.

Turkish security forces will take extraordinary measures to provide security during the June 7 elections, as 150,000 police officers will be on duty during election day. 

As part of the measures, weekend days off for security forces, including officers and the gendarmerie, have been canceled in order to efficiently address any kind of unrest. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is back hounding a media organ, this time daily Cumhuriyet, and Can Dündar, its editor-in-chief, for publishing footage about three Syria-bound trucks that were stopped by the gendarmerie near Adana in January 2014. It turned out at the time that the trucks belonged to Turkey?s National Intelligence Organization (M?T).