Turkey–ISIL conflict

Turkish security units operating in northern Iraq seized explosive devices and other materials used by the PKK terrorists, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.

At least seven civilians were killed and nine injured when PKK terrorists targeted a vehicle carrying forest workers in southeastern Turkey, Turkey's interior minister said early on Sept. 13.     

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Sept. 10 that Washington is stalling the implementation of an agreement to create a "safe zone" in northern Syria.

U.S. and Turkish troops conducted their first ever joint ground patrol on Sept. 8 within the safe zone along the Syrian-Turkish border and northern Syria.

Turkey and Germany will hold political consultations in Berlin on Sept. 9, Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 8.

Bulgaria on Saturday handed a terror suspect over to Turkey after arresting the individual who tried to illegally cross into the country, reports AA. 

The suspect, identified by the initials B.G., 40, was arrested by Bulgarian security forces while illegally crossing the border, according to a security source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Turkish security forces on Sept. 3 said a senior PKK terrorist was among those "neutralized" in airstrikes a day earlier in northern Iraq.     

Turkish fighter jets neutralized five PKK terrorists in northern Iraq in an air operation, according to the country's National Defense Ministry on Sept. 1.           

Two suspected members of the terrorist group YPG/PKK were detained on Aug. 31 in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province, bordering Syria, according to a statement by the governorship.

Turkey's national defense minister on Aug. 30 said the country needed direct confirmation of reports that YPG- the Syrian offshoot of the illegal PKK- withdrew from parts of northern Syria and destroyed some of their emplacements.