Turkish Kurdistan

A businessman in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır is in hot waters after a large house he built on top of another building has recently come under public scrutiny. 

The mayor of a sub-district in the southeastern province of Adıyaman has been detained after four Turkish soldiers were killed amid the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks in the area.

A roadside bombing by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed the wife and baby of a Turkish soldier in the southeastern province of Hakkari, the local governor's office said July 31.

The governor's office of Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır has declared a curfew in eight villages and arable lands due to security operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants.

Turkish airstrikes "neutralized" nine militants, including a high-ranking one, in the country's southeastern Şırnak and Siirt provinces and northern Iraq's Kandil region, the military said on July 19.

Archeologists have discovered new temples and standing stones in Göbeklitepe, an archeological site located in Turkey's southeastern Şanlıurfa province.

A Turkish soldier was killed and two other soldiers were injured when a hand grenade exploded accidentally in eastern Ağrı province on July 7, the Turkish military said on July 8.

Airstrikes have "neutralized" 11 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq and the rural regions of Turkey's southern Şırnak province, the Turkish General Staff said July 4.

A driver has been released by a judge after ramming into 10 pedestrians walking on a sidewalk in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakır, although he has no driving license.

A court in the southeastern Diyarbakır province ordered the release of Leyla Güven, a lawmaker of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on June 29, according to a judicial source.