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1 ton of cocaine seized at Mersin Port
Custom enforcement officers have seized 1 ton of cocaine at the Mersin Port in southern Turkey.
This is the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in the country, Trade Minister Mehmet Muş said on Twitter, congratulating the General Directorate of Customs Protection units for the "successful operation."
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Police shoot dead would-be ISIL suicide bomber planning attack on police station in Turkey's Mersin
Police shot and killed a would-be suicide bomber from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Sept. 6, preparing to attack a police station near the regional National Intelligence Organization (MİT) base in the southern Turkish province of Mersin.
HDP rally bomb attack suspect arrested in Turkey's southeast
A suspect who was detained on allegations of perpetrating a twin bomb attack on June 5 at a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r was arrested on June 10.
Same man 'planted' bombs at offices of Turkey's HDP
The same man ?planted? bombs at the offices of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) in southern Turkey to explode on May 18, according to officials and eyewitnesses who spoke to Hürriyet on May 19.
15 arrested in Mersin corruption case
Fifteen suspects in a corruption probe into former officials at Mersin Metropolitan Municipality have been arrested, including the son of the former mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Macit Özcan, as well as two of the latter's brothers.
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