Doğan News Agency

The Turkish army said it launched a military exercise on Turkey-Iraq border on Sept. 18, just a week before the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) is set to hold a referendum on independence. 

The same thing happens at every hearing in the ongoing trials on Turkey's July 2016 coup attempt: While the hearing is continuing, someone in the audience in the section reserved for the families of those killed or injured stands up and starts shouting.

A group of thieves on Sept. 15 broke into an Armenian Orthodox Church in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, stealing a number of religious artefacts, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Locals in the area spotted the thieves at the Surp Krikor Lusavoric Armenian Orthodox Church while they were trying to put a huge painting and a cross they stole from the church inside a vehicle nearby.

Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each local governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office issued detention warrants for 63 people, including 45 former National Intelligence Agency (MİT) personnel, on Sept. 12 over alleged links to Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based preacher widely believed to have masterminded last year's failed coup, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

The police operation was launched in 21 provinces across Turkey.

A former police officer has shot his own father after he allegedly swore at Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based preacher widely believed to have masterminded last year's failed coup, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Education Ministry officials have admitted that none of the 18 officials in charge of controlling the text books saw an obscure caricature included in a Turkish language school book.

One soldier was wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) car bomb attack in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Sept. 10, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A PKK militant inside a bomb-laden car refused to obey stop calls by gendarmerie forces at the Duru Gendarmerie Military Post some 15 kilometers away from the district at around 6 a.m.

A Turkish court has ordered a German citizen who was detained in the southern province of Antalya last week to be released but banned from travel, Doğan News Agency reported on Sept. 7.

The released person and their German spouse were detained while on holiday in Antalya. The spouse had already been freed after questioning.