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Security forces have shot two assailants during an attack on the police headquarters in Istanbul in which two policemen were injured, Do?an News Agency reported on April 1.

The assailants opened fire on police stationed at the entrance of the building in Istanbul's Fatih district with long-barreled weapons, the report said. 

Security forces launched simultaneous operations on the houses of students who were allegedly involved in student group clashes at universities in the capital Ankara last month.

A 4-year-old Syrian boy has died after being hit by a tram in a horrific accident in Istanbul.

Three Saudi Arabian citizens and one Russian citizen were arrested on March 25 in the southeastern province of Gaziantep province before entering Syria, local officials have said.

A metrobus caught fire on one of Istanbul's busiest roads on March 24, luckily causing no casualties.

Turkish police have detained two Georgians on the border between the two countries, after one hid herself inside a suitcase in order to be smuggled into Turkey.

Turkish police have seized a large weapons cache in a car going from the western province of Kocaeli toward Istanbul.

The car entered Turkey from Syria, carrying a licence plate registered in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep, Do?an News Agency reported March 21.

A convict who killed his wife during a visit to a prison in eastern Turkey has told the prosecutor that he committed the crime after they argued about an issue related to the fact that he had murdered his cousin for raping the woman, Do?an News Agency reported on March 20.

A murder convict in eastern Turkey has stabbed his wife to death during a stay in the prison's "pink room," where prisoners are allowed to spend hours in privacy with their wives.

The Istanbul Police Department has finally sent the identities of the policemen suspected of shooting dead Gezi protest victim Berkin Elvan, a full year after the 15-year-old passed away following 269 days in a coma.

Elvan was shot with a tear gas canister during a police crackdown on protesters on June 16, 2013, and succumbed to his injuries on March 11, 2014.