The governors of Turkey’s south-eastern provinces made a decision to ban the festivities because of the threat of terrorist attacks.
The Turkish police reported that the PKK (Kurdistan Workers` Party) terrorist organization intends to realize a series of terrorist attacks from March 20 to March 30 in major cities of Turkey.
A car bomb exploded in Ankara on March 13, near a crowded bus stop. The explosion killed as many as 37 people, 125 more got injured.
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