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Turkey conducted a new series of airstrikes overnight, hitting 17 suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Iran and Iraq.

According to a statement of the Turkish General Staff, the airstrikes were aimed at "terrorist targets" around the Buzul mountain and Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province.

Three Russian members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been arrested in the southern province of Adana.

"Three foreign nationals believed to be ISIL members have been arrested by the Adana Provincial Gendarmerie Command in Adana's Yumurtal?k district," the Turkish General Staff said in a written statement on Aug 9.

A total of 29 people suspected of being part of a prostitution ring notorious for organizing swinger parties in Turkey's southern province of Adana are facing up to 177 years in prison on charges including "prostitution," "organizing a crime syndicate" and "human trafficking."

The four prosecutors who ordered the stopping and searching of Syria-bound intelligence trucks in January 2014 and were later arrested on charges of attempting to topple the government, were transferred to Ankara late Aug. 2, from Turkey's southern district of Tarsus. 

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels have bombed a railway line in Turkey's eastern province of Kars and then fired at repair workers, killing one, the BBC reported.

The attack, which took place on Thursday, is the latest in the surge in violence after a fragile two-year ceasefire between PKK and the Turkish government broke last week.

An armed attack on a police station in the southern Turkish province of Adana left two police officers and two Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants dead.

Around eight PKK militants armed with long-barreled guns attacked the police station in the town of Pozanti early on Friday.

Two police officers were killed in a gun attack on a police station in the southern province of Adana that also left two militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) dead.

Around eight PKK militants carried out an armed attack early July 31 on the Pozant? Police Department with long-barreled guns. An armed conflict ensued as police officers responded to the fire.

Eight officials from a political party along with 87 others have been fined for gambling after police raided the office of a party in the southern province of Adana late July 28, less than a year after police raided the same location on similar allegations.

A friend of a killed man, who was suspected to have fought for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was detained on charges of setting him up, while another man was killed for allegedly being an ISIL member in Turkey's southern province of Adana, in the latest reprisal from the group following the July 20 Suruç massacre.

In an attempt to stop violence against women and sexual harassment cases, public transportation vehicles in Turkey?s southern province of Adana will now have panic buttons. Drivers of public transportation will also need to obtain a drug-free report.