İzmir Police

İzmir police have apprehended a woman over allegedly breeding and selling purebred dogs at her house despite the ban, as municipal teams have confiscated more than 45 purebred dogs living in unhealthy conditions and relocated them to a shelter.

A total of 340.5 kilograms of drugs in 10 sacks were seized on the border line in the eastern province of Van, the Defense Ministry has announced.

A 3,500-year-old statuette of Sun Goddess of Arinna, which is of great importance for the Hittites, called "People of a Thousand Gods", is displayed at İzmir Archeology Museum. 

The statuette is on display within the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry's project after it was rescued by smugglers by İzmir police in 2015.

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In last two days, unknown persons in Turkey have hacked mosques' digital audio systems in the coastal city of Izmir and played the anti-fascist song Ciao Bella and other songs with revolutionary messages.

After videos of the stunt were widely shared, Izmir police announced that they had started an investigation on Thursday and detained several people for insulting religion.

An investigation has been launched into two police officers in the Aegean province of İzmir following the emergence of security camera footage of one of them beating two women, after the women asked for help upon being subject to sexual harassment.

U.S. President Donald Trump has urged Turkey to release American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was arrested on charges of "being part of a terrorist organization" last year, the White House stated on May 16 following the U.S. president's first face-to-face meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a decision to acquit 357 people who were tried in the controversial military espionage case, believed to have been pursued by prosecutors linked to the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.