A curfew has been imposed on Cizre and Silopi since December 14, the first day of the operation.
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Nusaybin and Dargecit in the border province of Mardin and the historical Sur district of Diyarbakir, the region’s biggest city, have also seen fierce battles.
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Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred protesters in Istanbul’s main Taksim square demonstrating against security operations and curfews in the southeast, Reuters witnesses said on Sunday.
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Food and water was running scarce in some Diyarbakir districts, while shopkeepers kept shutters closed in protest at operations, residents said.
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Turkey needs to control its security forces and investigate the deaths of civilians who were killed during police operations and clashes with armed groups in recent months.
During the curfews, Special Operations Police teams and other security forces have conducted counter-terrorism operations against the armed Kurdish youth movement, using armored vehicles and sometimes tanks and heavy artillery against their barricades.
In the eastern province of Bitlis, two soldiers were killed and another six were wounded in a roadside bombing, according to Anadolu. “I am just a mother”, Yalabak stated.İdris Baluken, the HDP parliamentary group deputy chairman, told the families that the party is in the process of forming a group that will go to the headquarters of the PKK in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq and try to rescue the kidnapped soldiers. Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast has been engulfed in renewed clashes since a two-year ceasefire between the PKK and Ankara fell apart in July, bringing back a conflict that has crippled the region for three decades, killing more than 40,000 people.
Turkey is also waging an all-out assault on the PKK which has staged dozens of deadly attacks against members of the security forces in the southeast of the country.
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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The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
