Sakarya

Computer servers of Sakarya University, a public research university located in the city of Adapazarı, the capital of the western province of Sakarya, have allegedly been used to mine cryptocurrency, daily Habertürk reported on May 7.

One of the three suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detained in the northwestern Turkish province of Sakarya could be the "emir" of Syria's Deir ez-Zor region, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 2, just five days after another suspected Deir ez-Zor "emir" was caught in Turkey.

Counter-terrorism police on April 16 detained four foreign nationals as part of an operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the western province of Sakarya, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Four suspects were arrested on March 19 in an investigation launched by the chief public prosecutor's office of the Geyve district of the northwestern province of Sakarya into Çiftlik Bank, which engaged in Ponzi scheme-type practices.

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled on March 14 that the prison administration at the Ferizli L-type prison in the Sakarya province failed to protect the “right to life” for Fatih Kolbasar, an inmate who committed suicide in his cell in 2008. 

A Syrian man whose pregnant wife was raped and then murdered with his baby in the northwestern province of Sakarya has said the murderers "don't represent Turkey" and stressed that he is not angry at the country.

A 16-year-old girl in the northwestern province of Sakarya's Adapazarı district, who had shared on social media photographs of a cat with eyes gouged out, has been fined 2,202 Turkish Liras by the authorities. 

The girl, identified only as Suda A., had shared on Aug. 22 a photograph of a cat with eyes gouged out along with a statement: "What I like the most."

Germany has not responded to a diplomatic note from Turkey on Adil Öksüz, one of the key suspects in the cases into the failed July 2016 coup attempt, Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül has stated. 

Jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said his own party has faults in the issue of the problems seasonal workers face, as he commented on the deaths of seven workers in the northwestern province of Sakarya. 

At least seven people were killed and nine others were injured after a tractor carrying nut workers overturned in the Hendek district of the northwestern province of Sakarya on Aug. 18.

The cause of the accident in the Köseköy neighborhood at around 7:25 a.m. was not immediately known.