At least two terrorists were neutralized in an anti-terror operation in southeastern Turkey, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry said the armed terrorists were targeted by local …
At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded today while attempting to defuse an improvised explosive device. The device exploded in a village near the town of Idil, Turkey's Sirnak province, according to …
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 points has occurred in the Silopi district of Turkey’s south-eastern Sirnak province, according to the Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management Authority AFAD. The tremors were …
An improvised explosive device believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels has exploded on a road in Turkey’s southeastern Sirnak province, killing two people, according to Anadolu Agency. The agency said that two security …
An armored personnel carrier has overturned in Turkey’s Sirnak province. As a result of the incident, two Turkish servicemen were killed and seven were injured. All the injured were taken to a military hospital. The …
Oil fields have been discovered in three provinces of Turkey,according to the Turkish official newspaper Resmi Gazete. The message reads that the oil has been found in the provinces of Mardin, Sirnak and Bitlis. The potential of the …
At least three soldiers were killed in action, another was injured following a terror attack by the PKK in southeastern Turkey's Şırnak province. The attack reportedly took place near Kuyutepe base area, where …
Six new football stadiums will be built in such Turkish cities as Ankara, Elazig, Erzincan, Hakkari, Sirnak and Edirne, Turkey's Youth and Sports Ministry said in a message, noting that 820 million Turkish liras ($217 million) will …
Nine people have been killed and 28 have been wounded in a bus accident in the southeastern district of Silopi in Sirnak. The bus carrying Iraqi nationals had been moving from Turkey to Iraq, the Dogan News Agency reported. …
Four miners were killed when part of a coal mine in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sirnak collapsed, security sources and Turkish media said. Search and rescue teams were searching for trapped workers, Reuters reported. …
The Khabur border crossing on the Turkish-Iraqi border, which is located in Silopi district of Sharnak province, was not closed, the Turkish Ministry of Customs said. Earlier it was reported in media that the Turkish government closed …
Three soldiers were killed in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the Uludere district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on June 27. Security sources said PKK militants opened fire on a military vehicle carrying food …
All 13 Turkish soldiers on board a Cougar military helicopter were killed when it crashed after getting caught in a high-voltage power line in the Senoba district of Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province, the army said. In a …
Turkish soldiers clashed with Kurdish militants in a rural area of southeast Turkey near the Iraqi border on Friday morning, the armed forces said. The firefight occurred around 9.30 am (0630 GMT) in the Uludere district of Sirnak …
Three Turkish soldiers were martyred and five were wounded on Tuesday, in a roadside bomb blast by the PKK in the Gabar Mountain region of Şırnak, Turkey. The soldiers were targeted by members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party …
A bomb blast in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak killed at least two children, local officials said on Saturday. Four more children were also wounded in the attack, the governor's …
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there was no doubt that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy, was responsible for the attack in Sirnak province. …
An explosion has hit a police checkpoint in the Turkish border town of Cizre, with reports of at least nine dead and 64 wounded in the latest attack in the country’s south-east. State-run Anadolu Agency blamed the attack on the …
A Turkish military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in southeast Sirnak province near the Iraqi border, killing two soldiers, the Dogan news agency reports. No one claimed responsibility for the blast yet, Reuters …
A draft law was submitted Tuesday to the Turkish parliament to change the administrative status of two southeastern provinces and two districts. The draft law proposes to downgrade Hakkari and Sirnak provinces to districts, and rename …
