Turkish military operations in the south east have killed 115 Kurdish rebels since 15 December, a state-run news agency reported on Monday. 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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In Diyarbakir, the symbolic capital of the Kurdish heartland in Turkey, residents reported violent clashes between the youth wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and police in the district of Sur.
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Turkey is on alert after 103 people were killed on October 10 when two suicide bombers ripped through a crowd of peace activists in the capital Ankara, the worst attack in modern Turkey’s history.
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Local media reports said that some homes in Silopi sustained heavy damage from clashes, which have continued across Turkey since the military launched a crackdown on the PKK in late July, shattering a fragile peace deal with the Kurds that had been two years in the making. 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.
Human Rights Watch is urging Turkey to scale back security operations in Kurdish areas in the southeast, warning of rapidly rising casualties among civilians.
Ferhat Encu, a pro-Kurdish lawmaker in Sirnak, said on Twitter the bodies of those killed were still on the streets and in people’s homes due to curfews.
Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of the HDP, told a news conference that the campaign was targeting locals who were presented as “terrorists”.
The Turkish government criticized the visit following the falling out between Ankara and Moscow over the downing of a Russian jet last month on the Syria border.
The PKK is designated as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
The conflict has left tens of thousands dead.
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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.
