Gaziantep

As the Turkish, U.S. and French defense ministers were meeting in Brussels on Oct. 26 for an assessment on the situation in Mosul and Iraq in general, Ankara was focused on helping the Free Syria Army (FSA) take control in towns that are key for its border security.

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry has warned Bulgarian citizens planning visits to Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya, Izmir and Gaziantep to take into consideration the risk of terrorist attacks.

Police have detained the brother of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen in the western Turkish province of İzmir. 
Kutbettin Gülen was detained on Oct. 2 by İzmir's counter-terrorism police as a part of the investigation into the failed July 15 coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

A Roman-era child statue, which was unearthed in the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep in 1931 but then sent to the southern province of Adana, was brought back to the city after 85 years. 
The opening of the statue called the "Romani Bambino" was held at a ceremony at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum. 

Police in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Sept. 17 took extensive measures after detaining a suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant who possessed pictures of a cemevi, a house of worship used by adherents of the Alevi sect, and was confirmed to be preparing a terror attack.  
 

A huge panic erupted when a few days prior to bayram M.D., who went shopping for the coming religious holiday in the southeastern city of Gaziantep, yelled "I am a suicide bomber." M.D. was nearly lynched when passersby realized after their initial shock that there was no such mechanism on his body. M.D.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said that Turkey's migrant readmission agreement with Europe will not be fulfilled without EU visa liberalization for Turkish citizens, speaking at a news conference at the end of a high level EU delegation visit to the southeastern province of Gaziantep to discuss migrant crisis and the EU-Turkey deal.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top EU officials arrived in Turkey's Gaziantep on April 23 as a part of a one-day visit to the border town to discuss migrant crisis and the EU-Turkey deal.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans will pay a visit on April 23 to the southern province of Gaziantep, where they aim to take stock of the implementation of the March 18 EU-Turkey deal and discuss the next steps.

A Syrian journalist who was shot in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has died from his wounds.
     
Mohammed Zahir al-Sherqat died on the afternoon of April 12 in a hospital in Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, according to his friend Barry Abdulattif, a Syrian activist.