Iğdır

The Turkish province of Iğdır bordering Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic hosts some 330 bird species during the spring season.

Pervin Buldan, the deputy parliament speaker and Iğdır lawmaker from the Kurdish-issue focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has emerged as a likely candidate to replace jailed HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş in the party’s upcoming congress scheduled for Feb. 11.

The Aras Mountains, extending up to 3,000 meters in the eastern Turkish provinces of Iğdır, Ağrı and Kars, have become an off-road hub for adrenaline junkies.

Turkey has begun building a "security wall" along part of its border with Iran, regional officials said on Aug. 8, in a move aimed at stopping illegal passages, Hurriyet writes.

Turkey has begun building a "security wall" along part of its border with Iran, regional officials said on Aug. 8, in a move aimed at stopping illegal passages. 

The wall is being built by the Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKİ) upon the request of the Defense Ministry. 

Turkish daily Aydınlık's Editor-in-Chief İlker Yücel was detained in the eastern province of Iğdır on June 3. 

 Yücel, who went to Iğdır three days ago to visit his friends, was detained by the security forces, before taken to a courthouse. 
Yücel said that he was detained over not publishing a text of refutation sent by Energy Minister Berat Albayrak.

Some 1.27 million new voters will be registered to take part in the April 16 referendum on whether to shift Turkey to an executive presidential system, the Supreme Election Board (YSK) announced on its website on April 7. 

The total number of registered voters is 55.32 million, up from the 54.50 million voters registered for the Nov. 1, 2015 general election, a rise of 2.6 percent.

A fresh migration wave with three million migrants is currently in the phase of mobilization from Iran to Turkey, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said March 26.

Eight people, five of whom were Azerbaijani, were killed and 28 others were injured in a bus accident that occurred in the eastern province of Iğdır early on Feb. 20, Doğan News Agency has reported.  

Two passenger buses collided at the 20th kilometer of the Iğdır-Nakhchivan highway near the Dilucu border gate with Azerbaijan's autonomous republic of Nakhchivan.

Police on Dec. 26 detained Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy head, Aysel Tuğluk, in Ankara, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Tuğluk was detained early in the morning by counter-terrorism police as part of an investigation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the agency said.