Provincial Gendarmerie Command

A Roman-era sculpture was seized by the provincial gendarmerie command in a car in the western province of Denizli's Sarayköy district. The 15x10-centimeter bronze sculpture, depicting a horse-drawn carriage with a gladiator figure, was delivered to the Denizli Museum Directorate.

Kemal Özer, a journalist and nature photographer for daily Evrensel, was detained by police as part of an anti-terrorism probe in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli late on Sept. 4, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Özer's vehicle was stopped at a police checkpoint at the entrance of Tunceli city center while he was returning from the province's Ovacık district. 

Some 103 illegal migrants of Afghan and Pakistani origin have been caught in the eastern province of Erzincan, after the bus carrying them broke down, while another 120 illegal migrants were found in the eastern province of Ağrı, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 23. 

Security forces launched an extensive operation to save a teacher abducted last month by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on a highway between the eastern provinces of Tunceli and Erzincan, Doğan News Agency reported on July 11.

Some 18 people were detained in simultaneous raids around Istanbul over alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on June 11, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Anti-terrorism police raided 19 different addresses in 11 districts in Istanbul early on June 11 as part of an investigation into the jihadist group. 

One village guard was killed in an operation against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the eastern province of Bingöl on April 4, according to security sources, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.     

A Turkish soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in Turkey's southeastern Şırnak province on Nov. 30, a military official said.

The soldier was severely injured when explosives believed to have been planted by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants detonated as a military vehicle passed in Uludere, a district lying on the Iraq border.

Turkish gendarmerie forces have detained a total of 11 people, including the co-mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin's Maz?da?? district, in operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

One man and two of his children died in a bomb blast at a culvert on June 13 in the eastern province of Elaz??. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an chaired a cabinet meeting April 20 for the third time since he was elected president, with the A?r? incident and electorate security at the top of the agenda.