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The legal battle over the housing of a bear, which had been the subject of a lawsuit for seven years, has finally come to an end after it was decided the animal would stay with her adopted human ?mother,? daily Hürriyet has reported. 

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An arrest warrant has been issued for retired Brigadier General Zeki Es, who has yet to surrender despite receiving a jail sentence of six years eight months for his alleged role in a mine blast in Turkey's eastern province of Hakkari that killed seven soldiers in 2009. The sentence was approved by the Military Supreme Court of Appeals 12 months ago.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targeted a military base with two mortar attacks in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish general staff said in a statement on June 7.

The PKK attacked the Da?l?ca military base close to the Iraqi border in Hakkari province at around 12.35 p.m. local time (10.35 GMT) on June 6, the statement said, adding that there were no casualties.

The constitution is constantly violated. President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has been disregarding a couple of articles of the constitution in each of his rallies for days. The ?party-state? structure is also a part of this. This is what happened at the Yüksekova rally in the eastern province of Hakkari:
 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has continued his salvoes against the New York Times over the U.S. daily?s recent editorial criticizing him.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an joined Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu in another grand airport opening, this time in the predominantly Kurdish-populated southeastern Anatolian province of Hakkari, issuing strong criticisms against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The Peoples? Democratic Party?s (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? said opening an airport means nothing if Erdo?an keeps boldly insulting the HDP and its voters in the southeastern province of Hakkari and elsewhere, referring to an airport opening ceremony in Hakkari?s Yüksekova district where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu delivered speeches.

A "group of terrorists" launched a mortar attack on a military base in the eastern Turkish province of Hakkari on May 25, the Turkish Armed Forces has announced in an official statement. 

The military base in the Da?l?ca district of Hakkari was shelled by an unidentified group, but the attack was halted after the military hit back, according to the statement. 

The number of property sales increased by 42.7 percent in April to 119,317 from the same period of the previous year, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜ?K) on May 25.

Additionally, mortgaged house sales throughout Turkey reached 46,063, an increase of 96.5 percent compared to the same month of the previous year.

Europe's first airport on an artificial island opened on May 22, as a morning Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul carrying 136 passengers touched down on its runway, the first of its kind outside the Far East.