Governor's Office

The Diyarbak?r Governor's Office approved a Nevruz celebration in the city on March 17, while celebrations planned in other provinces in the country's eastern and southeastern were banned due to security reasons.

The Roman Empire's military headquarters, the ancient city of Satala in Kelkit, will be unearthed.

Turkey's main opposition party has urged for food and accommodation to be given for those whose homes were destroyed in clashes between Turkish security forces and militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the country's southeastern town of Cizre.

A total of 43 people have been evacuated from various neighborhoods in the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbak?r province in the last 24 hours amid ongoing counterterror operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on March 3.

Hundreds of explosives have been deactivated and hundreds of barricades and trenches removed during a blanket curfew in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre that came into effect for military operations targeting militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), according to official sources.

A curfew which was declared on Dec. 14, 2015, in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak will be lifted on the morning of March 2, the ??rnak Governor's Office has announced.

The governor's office said in a statement that the curfew would be lifted for daylight hours on March 2 but would continue to be imposed at nights between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m.

The Governor's Office in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r issued a statement on Feb. 26 saying a corridor will be opened for the last time to evacuate children and elderly people from neighborhoods in its Sur district, which has been under curfew for 87 days.

At least 47 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the southeastern town of ?dilover the past week, amid ongoing counterterrorism operations in the country's eastern and southeastern regions targeting militants from the outlawed group.

A vehicle laden with 500kg of explosives, Kalashnikov rifles and ammunition, was apprehended by gendarmerie officials in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r late on Feb. 18, the Governor's Office has stated, just two days after a car bomb targeting military personnel shuttles killed 28 in the capital Ankara. 

An indefinite curfew has been declared in the southeastern Anatolian district of ?dil amid an exodus that has lowered the town's population by nearly one tenth, days after the interior minister signaled an expansion of military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).