Representatives from the bar associations of Diyarbakır, Van, Bingöl and Siirt and from the İHD and TİHV protested the construction near Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey. Police ...

Interior Ministry has announced that two members of the Police Special Operations team, who were critically wounded in a conflict in eastern Siirt province, have lost their lives. While the operation ...

Accurate and detailed statistics about movements of IDPs are a precondition for the Turkish government to begin planning how it can meet its obligations and commitments in relation to the internally ...

A total of six PKK terrorists were killed in Turkey's southeastern Siirt province, said a Turkish General Staff statement on Saturday. The statement said PKK terrorists opened harassing fire on ...

We are the people of village G, near Pervari, Siirt province. The PKK and soldiers clashed near our village. After this, on orders from the major from village K near Pervari the soldiers started to ...

Dozens of people were arrested from eastern and southeastern Turkey on Tuesday as part of anti-PKK operations in the country, security and judicial sources told Anadolu Agency. Mersin Governor’s ...

KIZILTEPE, Turkey (Reuters) - Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey's bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination - one of ...

News websites are reporting that a Turkish Sikorsky (Black Hawk?) has come down in bad weather on Herekol mountain, in the Pervari district of Siirt province (southeastern Turkey). It was carrying ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkey’s interior ministry on Wednesday dismissed the pro-Kurdish co-mayor of Siirt province after she was sentenced to over six years in prison on terror-related charges and ...

ANKARA, Turkey-- Officials say a rescue operation is underway to find 13 miners still missing after a copper mine collapsed in southeastern Turkey. Rescuers have recovered the bodies of three miners ...

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NPR's Guy Raz reports from Ankara that a weekend by-election in southeastern Turkey is likely to alter the make-up of the Turkish government. Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the ruling Justice and ...