Syria–Turkey relations

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has praised the security forces for their "heroism" in carrying out anti-terror operations across Turkey. 

Police have apprehended five suspected suicide bombers on Turkey's border with Syria, the governor's office of the southern province of Hatay stated on June 24, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Police have apprehended five suspected suicide bombers on Turkey's border with Syria, according to a statement released by the governor's office of the southern province of Hatay. 

The head of the EU delegation to Turkey praised Turkey for caring for millions of Syrian refugees, during a concert in Ankara held to commemorate World Refugee Day on June 20. 

"Both the Turkish government and Turkish citizens have done a good job in hosting the Syrian refugees," Christian Berger said at the Modern Arts Center.

A municipality in southern Turkey has decided to remove all signs written in Arabic in order to "remove visual pollution," according to its official Twitter account. 

The municipality of Hatay province shared photos of officials removing Arabic signs from several shops on May 21. 

Over 1,000 people were intercepted by Turkish forces trying to enter the country illegally from Syria on May 14, the military stated on May 15.        

Just under 1,090 people were found by Turkish forces' border units, the General Staff stated, without saying whether the influx was at a particular point or along Turkey's lengthy southern border with Syria.        

One of the prosecutors in a controversial case into trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) case, who was later arrested for alleged links to the network of Fethullah Gülen, was aware of a deadly bombing in the southern province of Hatay, but did not take action to put pressure on the intelligence, according to a report. 

Italy on April 19 called on Turkey to release a journalist arrested this month near the Syrian border while he was researching refugees.

One of the prosecutors in a controversial case into trucks belonging to the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) case was detained in Istanbul on April 17, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office on April 13 demanded 15 years in jail for the former prosecutor of a controversial National Intelligence Agency (MİT) trucks case on charges of "membership to a terrorist organization," state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.