Osmaniye

A 15-year-old Syrian girl in the southern Turkish province of Osmaniye has been revealed to be pregnant, Doğan News Agency reported on Dec. 19.

The Syrian girl, only identified by her initials L.H., was taken to the Düziçi State Hospital from a temporary sheltering center in the Düziçi district of Osmaniye, after complaining of stomach pains. 

A number of people were detained in anti-drug operations in Istanbul's Beyoğlu, Şişli, Kağıthane and Ümraniye districts, as well as provinces across Turkey, early on Dec. 5, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Some 170,000 packages of cigarettes were seized from a tanker truck in the Mediterranean province of Osmaniye on Oct. 25, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The packages were seized in hidden compartments of the truck during a police search at the entrance to the province.

Three locals were wounded after a mortar shell attack by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the southern province of Osmaniye in the late hours of Oct. 19, Doğan News Agency has reported.

PKK militants fired three mortar shells from three different points at two neighborhoods on the foothills of the Amanos Mountains in Osmaniye.

A rare species of bird was found shot on Oct. 7 on the roadside in the southern province of Osmaniye, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Retired teacher Cengiz Gülçür spotted the red-wattled lapwing, which had sustained buckshot wounds to its wings, while returning to Osmaniye from the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, where he was on vacation.

A town has been quarantined following the outbreak of a rabies concerns in the southern province of Osmaniye, with at least 104 people receiving treatment in hospital. 

At least 14 people, including six children, were killed on June 5 when a school bus plunged off a road and into a canal in the southern province of Osmaniye. 

The first Syrians arrived in Germany from Turkey and the first group of migrants arrived in Turkey from Greece as a EU-Turkey deal on migration entered into force on Monday, Turkish and Greek media outlets have reported.

The first Syrians arrived in Germany from Istanbul April 4, while the first group of migrants arrived in Turkey from Greece on the same day, under an EU-Turkey migrant deal aimed at stopping the influx of migrants and refugees into Europe since last year. 

A municipality in the southern district of Osmaniye has distributed 20 tons of vegetables and fruits formerly destined for Russia among the public for free, as Russia announces new sanctions on Turkish exports to Russia.