Provinces of Turkey

Police in the southern province of Antalya have dispersed locals protesting a decision to demolish a public park in order to construct a carpark. 

Residents of the Cumhuriyet neighborhood had been staging a sit-in protest in the Göçmen Park for a week in order to resist the Antalya Municipality's plan to demolish the park, but were met with a police intervention on July 31.  

Turkey has begun the critical trial on the July 2016 coup attempt, in which 486 suspects stand accused of attempting a putsch to overthrow the elected government from the Akıncı Air Base, considered the central nerve center of the coup.

Women's rights associations protested on July 30 in Istanbul's Maçka Democracy Park where a private security guard verbally abused a 24-year-old woman the day before, with women also protesting against the rising number of attacks they face over the way they dress. 

A local man who attacked a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the Siverek district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa was arrested by court on July 31.

Mehmet Malbora, wearing traditional religious clothes and a turban, had climbed onto the pedestal of the statue in Siverek's Cumhuriyet Square and began to hit it with a wooden sickle on July 30. 

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A local peddler attacked a statue of Atatürk in the Siverek district of the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa on July 30, saying that "idol worshipping had no place in Islam," Doğan News Agency has reported.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca was released from prison on July 29 after the approval of her appeal against a 2.5-year prison sentence for disseminating terror propaganda.  The 2nd High Criminal Court in the southeastern province of Batman ordered Konca's release considering the five years she remained in custody.

Seven journalists and executives from daily Cumhuriyet were released from Istanbul's Silivri prison late on July 28 after a local court ordered their release in the case which they had been tried on terror charges.

Archaeological excavations that have been initiated in the ancient city of Uzuncaburç in the southern province of Mersin's Silifke district are expected to unearth important artifacts. Uzuncaburç is a significant tourism center in the city.

Archaeological excavations that have been initiated in the ancient city of Uzuncaburç in the southern province of Mersin's Silifke district are expected to unearth important artifacts. Uzuncaburç is a significant tourism center in the city.