Hakkari

Turkish Airlines is set to commence flights to the country's first artificial island airport in the Black Sea region, along with the much-anticipated new airport in southeastern Turkey, thus increasing its total nationwide destinations to 46.

The recent clash between Turkey?s security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), which took place in the Eastern Anatolian province of A?r? on April 11, has apparently forced a change in the schedule of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s election rallies ahead of the June 7 parliamentary election. 

The Turkish military hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets on March 25 in reprisal for mortar shells fired by the group targeting Turkish Armed Forces units in the Da?l?ca district of the southeastern province of Hakkari.

The names of historic Kurdish figures will be given to a number of schools in the southeastern Turkish province of Batman, Provincial Director of National Education Mehmet Çelik has said.

A Hakkari court ruled for the euthanization of 97 mules seized during a smuggling operation on the border last November on the grounds that the mules "threatened human and animal health," but were informed that the mules had escaped to Iran on Jan. 7, after heavy snowfall destroyed the tent they were being held in.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has suggested there is a plot behind the ongoing unrest in Cizre, a town near the border with Syria and Iraq, where tension peaked after a 12-year-old boy was shot last week, the sixth person to be killed in the town in the last three weeks.

A young man who entered a military post without permission in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been shot and wounded by soldiers. The man, identified only as R.K., was taken to hospital soon after the incident, which came as rising tensions in the region spilled over into protests.

One person was shot dead Dec. 6 in clashes between protesters and the police in the southeastern province of Hakkari

One person was shot dead Dec. 6 in clashes between protesters and the police in the southeastern province of Hakkari during demonstrations to commemorate two people killed last year. 

Nejdet Aydoğdu, the Turkish officer who was shopping with his wife in downtown Diyarbakır when he was shot in the head by unidentified assailants, was buried during his funeral at his hometown Ünye on Oct. 31.

Two of three suspects detained over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the eastern province of Hakkari have been arrested.

The suspects were captured by police on Oct. 27 as a part of the operation launched after the death of the soldiers and were sent to a court in the Yüksekova district after being questioned.