Diyarbakır

Five years into a drive to restore a historical district in Diyarbakır province hit by attacks by the terror PKK
group, the Turkish government has renovated more than 20 historical monuments, including churches, a provincial official told Anadolu Agency.

Four mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in southeastern and eastern Turkey have been detained over alleged terror links, according to local media reports.

Iğdır Municipality Mayor Yaşar Akkuş, Siirt Mayor Berivan Helen Işık, Baykan Mayor Ramazan Sarsılmaz and Kurtalan Mayor Bara Akgül have been detained over suspected links to terrorism.

A PKK terror suspect was detained in connection with the 2011 car bomb attack in the capital Ankara, which claimed 5
lives, police said on May 1. 
Identified only by the initials I.A., the suspect was captured from his father's house in eastern Diyarbakır province, the provincial security directorate said in a statement.

At least five people were arrested over alleged links to April 8's terror attack in southeastern Turkey, security sources said.

Earlier on April 9, prosecutors in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır issued warrants for six suspects over the attack in Kulp district which claimed the lives of five villagers.

Doctors across Turkey on April 9 discharged patients who have recovered from COVID-19 with a resounding round of applause.
All of them were informed about the 14-day home quarantine period and social isolation. Doctors will remain to monitor the patients.

Five mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in southeastern Turkey have been detained over alleged terror links, according to local media reports.

Turkey appointed acting mayors to four municipalities in the region.

Turkey has closed nationwide mosques for the upcoming Friday prayers and the holy night of Lailat al Miraj ("Miraç Kandili" in Turkish) as part of precautions taken against the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Hüseyin Sağtan, a jewelry designer from the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, has for many years been designing and producing works for Hollywood productions. Now he creates jewelries for Netflix series "The Witcher" and "Black Sails."

An unidentified man late on Jan. 24 slashed the tires of at least 160 vehicles in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Turkey's east.

Surveillance footage from Diyarbakır's Bismil district showed that an unidentified man flattened the tires with a knife, right after a powerful earthquake in eastern Elazığ province.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched an investigation into the suicide of an archeologist, Merve Kaçmış, employed at the world-known Zeugma Museum in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

It is claimed that she was exposed to workplace bullying after rejecting to take the responsibility of about 100 unregistered artifacts.