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Turkey Sacks Three Mayors on Terror Charges

Turkey on Monday sacked three mayors facing terrorism charges in the Kurdish-majority southeast and replaced them with trustees, the interior ministry said. The mayors in the cities of Mardin and Batman as well as Halfeti -- a district in the Sanliurfa province -- were removed from their positions, the ministry said. The three from the ...

Kurdish-Led Syria Force Says Turkish Strikes Kill 12 Civilians

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Thursday that Turkish airstrikes killed 12 civilians in northeastern Syria, following a deadly attack on a defense firm near Ankara. "Over the past hours, a new wave of (Turkish) attacks on northern and eastern Syria" killed "12 civilians, including two children," and wounded 25 others, a ...

Turkey Accuses PKK over Ankara Defense Firm Attack

Turkey's interior minister on Wednesday pointed the finger at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the government, over a deadly attack on a defense firm near the capital Ankara. "The identification process and the search for fingerprints are continuing and we will say which terrorist ...