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The Turkish army entered the fourth day of a military drill on the Iraqi border on Sept. 21, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The Turkish wives and children of Turkish Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Iraq are facing an obscure future, with many families in Turkey searching desperately to reach their relatives.

French reporter Loup Bureau, who had been held on "terror" charges in Turkey in a case that sparked tensions between Ankara and France, arrived in Paris on Sept. 17 after being freed.

Bureau, 27, arrived onboard an Air France jet at Charles de Gaulle Airport on a flight from Istanbul, the campaign group Reporters without Borders (RSF) said in a tweet.

A man from Turkey's Cizre district in the southeastern province of Şırnak shared the stage with British singer Anne Marie to sing along to her famous song "Rockabye" in Istanbul late on Sept. 9.

The Interior Ministry has stated that a total of 15 outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were "neutralized" during operations across the country on Sept. 6.

The authorities use the word "neutralized" to refer to militants who have been either killed, wounded or captured.

The Turkish Air Force conducted an operation in northern Iraq, killing at least eight outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, a statement said on Sept. 5.

According to the statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, the air force launched a counter-terrorism operation on Sept. 4 after detecting presence of PKK militants in the Zap area.

The children of killed soldiers and veterans have praised the Turkish people for "not leaving them alone," particularly through the help of the Turkish Armed Forces' Mehmetçik Foundation. 

Gaziantep Mayor Fatma Şahin has visited a lion cub that has been taken under protection after being found abandoned in a car on Aug. 23 in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak, naming the lion "Cesur" (Brave). 

Şahin visited the lion cub at the Gaziantep Zoo and fed him with milk through a syringe.

Three road construction workers were killed in an armed attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Şırnak on Aug. 28, according to the governor's office.        

A two-month-old lion cub was found in a car by police on Aug. 23, in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Security teams were conducting searches inside a car at a road checkpoint when they found the lion cub inside.