Geography of Turkey

Turkish security forces have rescued 55 migrants and refugees caught in a storm in the Aegean Sea off the southwestern province of Mu?la, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.      

Police said they rescued the group as they were attempting to reach the Greek island of Kos from Mu?la's Bodrum district on the night of Feb. 15.        

An ancient Greek storage container weighing nearly 300-kilograms was caught in the fishing net of a boat in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. The container, also referred to as a pithos, is believed to date back to the Byzantine Empire. 

A substitute teacher working in the southeastern province of Mardin has launched a social media project to help disadvantaged children in the area, collecting "happiness parcels" filled with school equipment, toys and other useful aid.

Turkey's military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will continue, the country's interior minister has promised as fresh clashes between security forces and militants resulted in the death of a child in the southeast.

A child has been killed while another has been wounded after being hit by bullets from clashes that erupted between Turkish security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants. 

The incident took in at the Dicle neighborhood of southeastern Mardin's province's Nusaybin on Feb. 14 at 5 p.m. 

A Turkish soldier has been killed in a knife attack after security forces intervened against a group of human smugglers trying to infiltrate into Turkish territory from Syria.

The Turkish Armed Forces announced in a statement that the incident took place at 7:15 p.m. on Feb. 14 at the Görenta? border post in Hatay's Yaylada?? district. 

Locals from the southeastern town of Nusaybin have started to flee their homes after Turkey's interior minister signaled last week that operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) would expand to the town.

A curfew has been enforced in Nusaybin, located in Mardin province on the border with Syria, on six separate occasions in recent months. 

Dozens of businesses are facing bankruptcy following two months of clashes and curfews in Cizre in Turkey's southeastern province of ??rnak. 

A total of nine outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed on Feb. 13 in the southeastern provinces of ??rnak and Diyarbak?r, the Turkish General Staff has announced.

Residents seeking to return to their normal daily lives in southeastern Diyarbak?r province's "devastated" Sur district, which has been the scene of weeks-long military operations against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), will have to wait five or six years, Turkey's main opposition party has said.