Gendarmerie

One soldier was killed after unidentified perpetrators opened fire during a gendarmerie investigation in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on Nov. 14, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The attack occurred in a forested area in the Çakırlar area of Antalya's Konyaaltı district while the gendarmerie was searching the area. 

The restructuring of the Turkish military in the wake of the July 15 failed coup attempt could create more problems than it solves, according to Nihat Ali Özcan, an academic an a retired major.

"Efforts to restructure the army should be done taking into account the army's functions," Özcan told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Ten soldiers and five civilians were killed on Oct. 9 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) suicide bomb attack targeting a military road checkpoint in the Şemdinli district of the eastern province of Hakkari, the Hakkari Governor's Office has announced, revising the previous civilian death toll to five.

The personnel figures in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have sharply fallen since the evening of the failed coup attempt on July 15, mainly due to the separation of the gendarmerie from the force, as well as large numbers of suspensions. 

Ogün Samast, the assailant in the 2007 murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, gave testimony on Sept. 30 over newly-surfaced video footage showing him chatting with police officers at a police station after he was caught, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Daily Hürriyet has accessed details shedding light on events concerning the prime suspect of the July 15 coup attempt, Adil Öksüz, and the Akıncı military base from which the coup attempt was orchestrated.

One soldier was injured when two hand-made explosives placed on a road exploded on April 28 in the Aegean province of Manisa.

The first explosion occurred on a road in the Soma district during the passing of civilian vehicles. No casualties were reported. A second explosion occurred as gendarmerie teams arrived at the scene after the first incident. 

A special unit of Italian Carabinieri have arrested a Macedonian citizen near Venice, on suspicion that he recruited Islamic State fighters.

Italian agency ANSA is reporting that the person detained was "introduced to radical Islam by an unnamed Bosnian imam."

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Feb. 1, killing 10 people and wounding 20 after joining a queue to enter an office of the civil order police, a senior official said.

Kabul was hit last month by a series of suicide attacks as the Taliban have stepped up their campaign against the Western-backed government. 

Canadian police have found no explosive device on board the Turkish Airlines plane flying from New York to Istanbul that was diverted to the Halifax Airport in Canada, officials say.

No "suspicions packages" were discovered as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, according to an announcement by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for Nova Scotia.