Gendarmerie Command

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said on Thursday organised crime groups smuggling migrants in northern Serbia were assisted by Albanian mafia from Kosovo-Metohija.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has announced that one of the most senior PKK terrorists, so-called top-ranking PKK member in the country and wanted in the red category, was killed alongside six other terrorists in the southeastern province of Şırnak in an anti-terror operation.

In the operation carried out by the provincial Gendarmerie Command, seven terrorists were "neutralized."

Anti-narcotics teams seized cannabis worth 4.5 million Turkish Liras in the northwestern province of Bursa on Aug. 30.

The Gendarmerie Command in Bursa formed a special team after receiving a tip-off about the growing of cannabis sativa in the province. 

Five people were murdered per day across Turkey in 2016, according to a report from the Police Department and the Gendarmerie Command.

Firearms were used the most in the 1,948 murders committed in the country in 2016, the report said.
Most of the murders were committed due to conflicts over money or honor killings, according to official figures. 

Nearly 3,000 migrants and suspected human traffickers have been detained in the northwestern province of Çanakkale over the past four days, in operations conducted to stop migrants from crossing over to Greek islands through Turkey.

One soldier was killed in during clashes with Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in the Hasanbeyli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, the Turkish General Staff said Oct. 5.

As many as 85 officials from the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Unity Party (DBP), including the mayor of the southeastern province of Batman and his deputy, have been detained after they attempted to enter a military security zone in Batman?s Sason district.

Around 40 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed during the eight-day curfew in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak, ??rnak Governor Ali ?hsan Su has said.

Even though the eastern province of A?r?'s governorate stated three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had been killed in clashes after PKK members staged an attack on the Gendarmerie Command in the province's Diyadin district, the mayor of the district has claimed two of the dead were actually underage civilians who had nothing to do with the outlawed organization. 

As tension in the country skyrockets, 10 suspects have been detained in the investigation of a gendarmerie officer who was murdered in Turkey's eastern province of Mu?, while a specialized sergeant was killed in a separate attack in the southeastern province of Hakkari.