Mardin

A woman living in the eastern province of Mardin and known for her resemblance to American actress Marilyn Monroe says that she spends 90 percent of her earnings on stray animals.

A mother of three with ambitious cycling goals has taught some 72 local women how to ride a bicycle in five months in the southeastern province of Mardin's Derik district, a place where adult women cycling is not considered "inappropriate."

Turkish security forces arrested a Syrian national who supplied grenades, explosives and rifle cartridges used by PKK terrorists in a gun assault and car bombing on a courthouse in Turkey's city of Izmir more than four years ago, security sources said on Oct. 12. 

Turkey's Justice Minister on Oct. 8 underlined the freedom of religion in the country, saying that everyone lives as they wish, regardless of their beliefs.

A shop of a UNESCO award-winning filigree (telkâri) master has been robbed by thieves who stole nearly seven kilos of silver handicrafts - a result of 20 years of meticulous hard work - in the southeastern province of Mardin.

An initiative has been launched by local religious community leaders to encourage people to get vaccinated in time as authorities are concerned about growing vaccine hesitancy among people who have refused to get jabbed even though their turn has come.

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Turkish officials are preparing to discuss new proposals to increase the jab rate as the country's eastern and southeastern regions are lagging in the vaccination campaign.

The Sakıp Sabancı Mardin City Museum - Dilek Sabancı Gallery in the southeastern province of Mardin, restored by the Sabancı Foundation upon the late businessman Sakıp Sabancı's will and transformed into a museum and art gallery, is hosting the exhibition "The Russian Avant-garde. Dreaming the Future Through Art and Design."

Two young women, 14-year-old Ela Demiral from Istanbul and 17-year-old Olivia Rose Auffarth from the U.S. state of New York, have started a project called "Goal to Future" to improve women's football in Turkey.

"We want to encourage girls to play football," Demiral told Demirören News Agency on May 12.

Turkey has neutralized 40 terrorists as part of Eren Operations so far, the country's interior minister said on May 9.

Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in statements to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.