Ethnic groups in Asia

Tajik security forces have killed at least 13 prisoners during a revolt that broke out last night in a town in the city of Hojang, Darik reported, citing three sources of law enforcement.
 
Local authorities confirmed to the agency that there was a rebellion, but did not disclose more information.

There has been an increase in attempts to illegally cross Bulgaria's border with Turkey and Greece, as well as an increase in the number of prevented attempts for the period from August to October 24, Interior Minister, Mladen Marinov, said during Parliament's question time on 26th of October.

A Palestinian computer engineer, who has been hailed on Turkish social media for his efforts to recover a couple's lost camera, said he felt gratitude to Turks for returning his lost wallet twice. 

Two World War II veterans, a Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot who fought together in the war, met once again in Nicosia 70 years later.

Between 1946 and 1948, after the end of WWII, 92-year-old Menelaos Kouzoupis from Agios Fotios and 95-year-old Kemal Salih from Falia, returned to the island and lost track of each other.

Almost all Serbian parents whose children are about to enrol in the only Serbian-language school in the southern Serbian town of Bujanovac have signed a petition, asking the school to have separate classes for Roma children.

At least 19 migrants died after the boat carrying them capsized off Turkish Cypriot coast on July 18.

Perched halfway up a cragged mountain range, limestone outcrops frame the small village of mostly single-story homes where Nicholas Skourides was born, and where he says he simply wants to live out the rest of his days.

Three people were killed in southeast Turkey on Friday when a fight broke out between members of the campaign of a ruling party parliamentarian and some local shopkeepers, security sources said.

Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), prefers to be called the "Kurdish Obama" rather than the "Kurdish Trump," according to a recent interview.

About 900 asylum seeking Kurds have left the reception and identification center in Moria on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos and refuse to return, following the violent clashes between migrants last Friday that left six people injured.