Gendarmerie

Turkish gendarmerie forces have trained a total of 12,000 staff and soldiers on how to combat violence against women in the past two years, one of the projects' leaders has said, adding they had distributed flyers in villages across the country to raise awareness and inform women of their rights as part of the project. 

The Turkish government maintains security during the June 7 general elections with a total of 404,000 security personnel.

Some 300,000 police officers will be on duty throughout the day, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said on June 5 in a televised interview, adding that the rest of the personnel will be gendarmerie.

Turkish security forces will take extraordinary measures to provide security during the June 7 elections, as 150,000 police officers will be on duty during election day. 

As part of the measures, weekend days off for security forces, including officers and the gendarmerie, have been canceled in order to efficiently address any kind of unrest. 

Canadian police arrested 10 youths at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport last weekend after suspecting them of wanting to go to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

Gendarmerie forces have raided a cologne producer in the western resort town of Fethiye, seizing 3,900 liters of bootleg alcohol and the material used to produce counterfeit alcoholic drinks.

Security sources said 1,400 liters of the alcohol was bottled and ready for distribution. Two people were detained for their roles in the production.

Jankovic said on Monday that recent media slurs against his character were an example of "the tabloidisation of state and society that I have been warning about for years".

Saying it had been tasked by a civilian authority and its primary motive was not to conduct any military operation, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has denied accusations about its conduct in an incident that resulted in a deadly clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in the eastern province of A?r?.

Saying it had been tasked by a civilian authority and its primary motive was not to conduct any military operation, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has denied accusations about its conduct in an incident that resulted in a deadly clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in the eastern province of A?r?.

Two special police units to be merged

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has announced that two special forces units of the Interior Ministry (MUP) will be merged into one unit.

MUP's Gendarmerie, meanwhile, will remain a separate formation.

BELGRADE- Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has announced that two special forces units of the Interior Ministry will be merged into one unit, while the Gendarmerie will remain a separate formation.