“The curfew has been imposed until further notice, with the aim of avoiding harm to civilians”, the local authorities said in a statement.
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Amitabh Matto, an Indian foreign policy expert, described Modi’s birthday diplomacy visit as a “very positive step”. He (Modi) has finally concluded that there is no choice but to have dialogue with Pakistan.
Over the course of its war against the Kurdish PKK, Turkey’s military has regularly put towns under curfew, cutting off electricity and surrounding the towns with military snipers.
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More severe weather was also in store for parts of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee that were again being pounded with rain. In Arkansas, an 18-year-old woman was killed Wednesday morning when a tree fell through the roof of her house in Atkins.
On Friday, Turkish forces carried out air strikes against alleged PKK weapons caches and hideouts in northern Iraq, and on Sunday protests erupted against the military operations in Istanbul and Diyarbakir, the largest city in the country’s restive and mainly Kurdish southeast.
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Around 50-80mm is due to fall this morning, with more than 100mm (4in) likely to come down over higher ground across the day. The Government has also warned that there could be flooding in Wales, Herefordshire and Shropshire over the festive period.
A masked protester holds a petrol bomb during clashes with Turkish police using water cannons and tear gas to disperse a demonstration in Istanbul protesting security operations against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey, December 20, 2015. After the bombing, the PKK militants, who accuse the government in Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of supposed reprisal attacks against Turkish police and security forces, in turn prompting the Turkish military operations. The PKK has launched dozens of guerrilla-style attacks on security forces. Nusaybin and Dargecit in the border province of Mardin and the historical Sur district of Diyarbakir have also seen fierce battles.
Gaziosmanpasa is known as a stronghold for supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the ultra-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
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.
“Wounded people have been denied access to medical treatment”, the HRW report said, adding that Turkish officials prevented access by observers or media to the affected areas.
Witnesses said stone-throwing teens clashed with police in the adjacent neighborhood of Tarlabasi, a hub for Kurdish immigrants from southeastern Turkey.
HRW also called on the PKK to stop planting explosives in trenches and erecting walls cutting off neighborhoods.
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The PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and Europe.
