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Two police officers were injured early on April 3 when explosive materials were thrown at their vehicle in the southern province of Mersin, security officials said.      

Security forces have launched wide-ranging investigation following the attack in the Mezitli district, Provincial Police Chief Mehmet Şahne said.

He gave no further information about the incident.      

Two people, including an 11-year-old child, have been killed and 15 others were wounded in a car bomb attack on lodgings housing judiciary personnel in Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa late on Feb. 17. 

A new container city will be installed in the southern province of Adana for refugees who have fled from war-torn Syria, where civil has been continuing since 2011, Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtaş announced on Feb. 8, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The container city, which will be located in Adana's Sarıçam district, will host at least 25,000 refugees in 5,000 containers.

Abdulkadir Masharipov, the killer of 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of Jan. 1, has confessed to his crime after being caught in Istanbul's Esenyurt district late on Jan. 16, the Istanbul Governor has stated.   

A statue of Turkey's founding-father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was removed on Dec. 22 from the main town square of the Black Sea province of Rize and was re-erected on a ceremony area in front of the Rize governor's office amid reactions from a group of people who said the work was ideologically motivated. 

The Turkish Interior Ministry reshuffled 616 local officials with a decree issued on Dec. 1, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Some 369 district governors and 106 deputy governors were appointed to new posts, while 75 district governors and deputy governors were reassigned as provincial legal advisers, according to the decree.

A total of 12 people were killed and 22 were wounded late on Nov. 29 when a fire broke out at a private girls' dormitory in the Aladağ district of the southern province of Adana, the governor's office has announced.

Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtaş announced that 12 bodies, including one educator, were retrieved dead in the fire, while the 22 wounded were taken to hospital. 

Turkey has appointed mayors to four municipalities in the southeastern and eastern region of the country following operations to detain and arrest the provinces' democratically elected leaders.

Trustees were appointed to the municipalities of the eastern provinces of Van, Siirt and Tunceli and the southeastern province of Mardin early on Nov. 17. 

Governors from a total of 22 provinces in the eastern and southeastern regions of Turkey have been called to the capital Ankara for a security meeting. The call came from the Turkish Interior Ministry, Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 18. 

A lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) said the southeastern Kilis province had turned into a "war zone" and that nobody had "life safety," after a party delegation paid a visit to the border town and prepared a report on its security situation in the face of recent rocket attacks from Syrian territories.