Two girls were killed and four people wounded on Sunday following clashes between police and Kurdish militants.
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The Diyarbakır Governor’s Office also announced that a curfew that had been declared on Sunday in Bismil’s Ulutürk, Tekel, Dumlupınar and Sırat neighborhoods was lifted on Monday morning and that life in the district had returned to normal. Yavuz Sonat. The commander was immediately taken to the Fırat University Hospital with a helicopter but doctors were unable to save the commander. None of them was in serious condition.
Meanwhile, a PKK militant was killed and another fled in an operation by security forces following an armed PKK attack on police in Hakkari province, the governor’s office said.
The most intense fighting since the 1990s has engulfed Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeastern region since July when the state launched air strikes against the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey and Iraq.
Army sources said that only 129 soldiers and policemen were killed in two months of fighting while the PKK lost 337 of its guerrillas.
The government has accused the PKK of using the 2-1/2 year truce to stockpile guns, while the opposition has said the government ended the peace process after a pro-Kurdish party won enough votes in June to enter parliament and deprive the ruling AK Party of a majority.
Since the resumption of the conflict 30 civilians are also reported to have been killed in the Kurdish areas of Turkey. The PKK is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
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At a dinner in New York on Friday, Davutoglu said Turkey had “broken the back of terrorist threats” with its recent operations, according to local media reports.
