Turkish police forces in Istanbul have clashed with demonstrators protesting against curfews in the country’s Kurdish-majority southeast.
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Citing its own investigations and data collected by local human rights groups, Human Rights Watch has issued a new report today warning of growing civilian death tolls in Turkey’s military crackdown on the ethnic Kurdish southeast.
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Black smoke rose from buildings in the town after shelling from hilltops and the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 23 civilians had been killed in the violence.
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Three policeman are also reported to have been killed. “To ignore or cover up what’s happening to the region’s Kurdish population would only confirm the widely held belief in the southeast that, when it comes to police and military operations against Kurdish armed groups, there are no limits – there is no law”.
Police use water cannons and teargas to disperse people protesting against security operations against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey, in Istanbul, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015.
HRW also called on the PKK to stop planting explosives in trenches and erecting walls cutting off neighborhoods.
Demirtas said the campaign was targeting locals who were presented as “terrorists”. Hundreds of people, members of the security forces and civilians included, have died since a settlement process that was launched in late 2012 fell apart.
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The operation has been continuing in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Sirnak and Mardin, with curfews declared to fight the terrorists nested in citizens’ homes.
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The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for over 25 years and has claimed more than 40,000 lives. In recent years the PKK has been pressing for greater autonomy and rights for the Kurds, Turkey’s largest minority.
