Gunfire clattered constantly and smoke rose on Thursday from two towns in southeast Turkey and President Tayyip Erdogan said Kurdish militants would be “annihilated” in an intensifying urban battle that has killed 25 Kurdish militants in two days.
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Pro-Kurdish media reported on Wednesday that an 11-year-old boy had also been killed during the operation, which could not be independently verified.
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On Monday (Tuesday NZT), two men were shot dead in Diyarbakir, while security forces have killed six militants in the province of Mardin since Friday.
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Twenty two PKK members have been killed in Cizre since the operations began earlier this week, while one was killed in Silopi, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.
Erdogan said the operations would continue until the area was “cleansed” of the militants and their barricades and trenches destroyed.
“I was born and raised in Diyarbakir and I’ve never seen anything like this”, said one father whose two children haven’t left their home in the city’s historic Sur neighborhood, the site of some of the most intense clashes, since their school was closed in early December because of the extended curfew.
Military personnel and special operations forces will therefore provide support to counterterrorism police officers while additional police stations will be built in areas under curfew particularly those near the border with Syria.
Ferhat Encu, a lawmaker from pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), shared on Twitter a video showing the MP arguing with soldiers as they went house-to-house.
Security forces in Turkey have killed eight Kurdish rebels in a clash in the country’s southeast, officials said Wednesday. Several thousand teachers are based in the towns. Elsewhere in the city, militants threw handmade explosives under an armoured police truck, triggering a brief clash between police and fleeing assailants.
According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, a total of 52 curfews have been imposed since mid-August in 17 districts in southeastern and eastern Turkey, affecting some 13 million people.
“Turkey faces a critical choice: “To advance its military strategy against the PKK in a fight that is bound to be protracted and inconclusive, or to resume peace talks”, the nonprofit group said in a report to be released Thursday”.
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The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK have so far claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people, a lot of them Kurds.
