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Turkish police have raided a political party headquarters in southern Turkey, detaining seven people, including the party's provincial head, for gambling.

Three Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been arrested in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtal?k district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.

A total of 29 people suspected of being part of a prostitution ring notorious for organizing swinger parties in Turkey's southern province of Adana are facing up to 177 years in prison on charges including "prostitution," "organizing a crime syndicate" and "human trafficking."

The four prosecutors who ordered the stopping and searching of Syria-bound intelligence trucks in January 2014 and were later arrested on charges of attempting to topple the government, were transferred to Ankara late Aug. 2, from Turkey's southern district of Tarsus. 

Eight officials from a political party along with 87 others have been fined for gambling after police raided the office of a party in the southern province of Adana late July 28, less than a year after police raided the same location on similar allegations.

Although her own T-shirt declared that she had learned ?All the lessons,? a young woman who murdered her husband in southern Turkey has told local police that she has ?no regrets? over the killing as he had forced her into prostitution.

The 22nd International Golden Boll Film Festival will be organized this year between Sept. 14 and 20 in the southern province of Adana. A total 876,000 Turkish Liras will be awarded for the National Feature Film, National Students Films and Mediterranean Short Film competitions as well as the first-time script writing competition around the theme of Adana. 

Ten people, including the district head of a political party, have been arrested for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl in southern Turkey.

The Turkish government maintains security during the June 7 general elections with a total of 404,000 security personnel.

Some 300,000 police officers will be on duty throughout the day, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said on June 5 in a televised interview, adding that the rest of the personnel will be gendarmerie.

With only few days until the June 7 parliamentary election, the Turkish government has decided to open new departments of riot police and special operations in several provinces. 

Related decisions by the Council of Ministers were published in the official Gazette on the early morning of June 4 and went into force immediately, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.