Diyarbakır

The Turkish president on April 14 called for the creation of a new constitution for the country that stands up for the public's hopes and dreams.

In an operation against cybercrime in 11 provinces, 20 suspects have been detained as they have been determined to target companies and senior public officials and to seize the information of 85 million people, selling them with the fake e-mails.

The Easter service was held for the first time in eight years at the historical Surp Giragos Armenian Church in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Sur district after it reopened for worship following restoration works.

Mehmet Yüksel, the head of the Chamber of Money Changers and Jewelers in Diyarbakır (DİKO), has turned a commercial vehicle into an "animal ambulance," which transfers injured animals to veterinarians or to municipal animal shelters.

In addition to the ambulance, food is distributed to stray animals with a feeding truck.

A high school student who made it to the "100 Rise Global" list of brightest students in the world last year has received full scholarships from nine universities, including Harvard and Stanford.

Born and raised in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, 18-year-old Gül Karen Aça is a senior at Bahçeşehir College. Her mother is a music teacher, and her father is a math teacher.

Türkiye is grappling with extreme weather emergencies as torrential rains once again cause floods in the southern quake-hit province of Hatay's Iskenderun district, while heavy snowfall forces schools to close in nine out of all 81 provinces in the country.

An Iraqi group of five people, who were on their way to a private hospital in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, were killed in an armed attack on early Jan. 19 in the neighboring province of Mardin.

The perpetrators of the armed attack on the jeep, which set off from Iraq's Duhok Governorate, followed the vehicle from the Habur Border Gate, according to the local media.

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has brought Burhan Piçak, who was leading PKK/KCK's "assassination unit," to Türkiye in the operation carried out in northern Iraq.

Piçak, code-named Canşer/Laşer, was determined to cross into Syria from the southeastern province of Diyarbakır's Lice district in 2015 and join the PKK.

Diyarbakır Prison, which has been long associated with cruelty, torture, and inhumane acts after the Sept. 12, 1980, military coup, will be closed and turned into a museum.

The protocol regarding the transfer of the prison from the Justice Ministry to the Culture and Tourism Ministry was signed between the two ministries.

Türkiye has decided to establish centers to protect and rehabilitate wildlife animals following the wildfires in the Aegean province of Muğla's Marmaris district, said Hüseyin Gökçe Meşe, an official from the Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP).