Anadolu Agency

Fierce clashes continued Dec. 22 in several southeastern Turkish towns and cities as hundreds of people, including children, were removed from their houses in Silopi, a town in ??rnak, to safe spots by security forces. 

More outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed, the military said while one more soldier was also killed. 

Turkish police have seized bootleg alcohol hidden in pressure cookers along with other illicit items found in a workplace in the southern province of Adana. 

A total of 10 people were detained in an early morning police operation on 22 separate locations in Adana on Dec. 22, Anadolu Agency reported. 

A Turkish minister has described Russian sanctions as "unsustainable" and added that Ankara is open for dialogue with Moscow to resolve the recent political crisis.

Most of the migrants who risk their lives trying to reach European Union member Greece from Turkey's shores use dinghies to pass over the Aegean Sea as few can afford safer modes of transport, with the number of voyages of hope increasing rapidly, according to fresh data. 

Two soldiers were killed and six were wounded on Dec. 21 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the eastern Bitlis province, Anadolu Agency has reported.

PKK militants detonated a hand-made explosive during the passing of security forces in the rural area of the Ölek village. According to initial reports, two soldiers were killed and six were wounded.

Some 110 militants have been killed during operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern provinces of ??rnak, Diyarbak?r and Mardin, state-run Anadolu Agency has claimed. 

After the long-awaited rate hike decision was realized by the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) on Dec. 16, the Turkish Lira has become the best performer among all emerging currencies against the dollar. 

At least 68 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in ongoing operations in the southeastern province of ??rnak over the last four days, a security official said on Dec. 19.

The country's top soldier, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, meanwhile, paid a surprise visit to the province amid the operations.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu traveled to New York to take part in a new round of talks focused on ending the more than four-year-old conflict in Syria, where he met his counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Qatar in a trio meeting.

Eight migrants - five of them children - drowned in two separate boat accidents off Turkey's Aegean coast early Dec. 18.

Four Iraqi migrants, including two children, drowned after a Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish resort town of Bodrum early Dec. 18.