One Turkish soldier hurt in clashes in Cizre on Saturday has died of his wounds, the security sources said.
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“Kurdish civilians, including women, children and elderly residents, have been killed during security operations and armed clashes since July 2015”, the group said in a report released on Tuesday, titled “Turkey: Mounting Security Operation Deaths”. It said those actions, and those of the government security forces, prevent medical personnel from reaching those who have been wounded. This time the PKK has shifted fighting from its traditional countryside bases to towns and cities, setting up barricades and digging trenches to keep security forces away, in a battle in which civilians have also become targets.
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Turkey has been involved in a fast-escalating conflict with the PKK since a ceasefire broke down in July following an ISIL suicide bomb attack on Kurdish youth activists in the town of Suruc, bordering the Syrian town of Kobane.
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The statement said that a Turkish soldier and two PKK terrorists were also killed in an operation in Olek village in the southeastern province of Bitlis, according to the state-run Anadolu agency.
Some 1.3 million people in 17 towns and cities have been affected by 52 curfews so far, according to official figures.
A full investigation is needed to determine in each case whether members of the security forces unlawfully killed civilians or whether civilians were killed in crossfire, by armed fighters or by flying shrapnel during armed clashes.
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. Turkish lawmakers can not be prosecuted unless parliament first strips them of their immunity.
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The PKK launched an insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence although it is now pressing more for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority. The education ministry recalled teachers from the area and schools were closed, as were health services due to a lack of doctors, among some 200,000 people who have fled the conflict zone. Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggested there would be no let-up in the campaign.
