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Four mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in southeastern and eastern Turkey have been detained over alleged terror links, according to local media reports.

Iğdır Municipality Mayor Yaşar Akkuş, Siirt Mayor Berivan Helen Işık, Baykan Mayor Ramazan Sarsılmaz and Kurtalan Mayor Bara Akgül have been detained over suspected links to terrorism.

Five mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in southeastern Turkey have been detained over alleged terror links, according to local media reports.

Turkey appointed acting mayors to four municipalities in the region.

Turkey imposed round-the-clock curfews on 15 villages in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Oct. 17 at 5 a.m. as part of operations conducted against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey's state intelligence agency MIT and Istanbul police have warned of possible terror attacks in major cities following military operations against the Islamic State (IS) group and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, todayszaman.com reported on Monday.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four were injured in the town of Lice, in Diyarbakir province, when a car bomb went off while their military vehicle was passing by, Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday.

The Diyarbakir province governor's office said that the security forces have launched an investigation to find the perpetrators. 

The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided that the five-year sentence handed down to three local politicians who campaigned in Kurdish back in 2009 was unjust, ruling a retrial of the suspects.

The Turkish Constitutional Court has decided that the five-year sentence handed down to three local politicians who propagated in Kurdish back in 2009 was unjust, ruling a retrial of the suspects.

Seven soldiers were wounded Dec. 22 when a land mine planted on the road was detonated as a military vehicle was passing in the southeastern province of Mardin.

Gendarmerie forces were patrolling the area in the Dağiçi locality near Bagok Mountain when the explosion occurred.

The Death toll from a tanker truck accident on July 22 in southeast Turkey has increased to 33 with the deaths of three more patients in different hospitals this week.

Police officer Akif Çakır died Aug. 5. Two injured passengers, Özlem Şimal and Ahmet Şen, who were being treated in hospitals in Adana and Ankara died on Aug. 6.

A tanker truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on July 22 overturned and exploded on a highway in southeast Turkey, killing one and injuring at least 66 people.