Amnesty worldwide said the Cizre curfew had included “the cutting of mobile phone signals, the blocking of roads, preventing anyone from entering or leaving the city, and reported cuts to water and electricity”.
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Interior Minister Selami Altinok said seven suspected Kurdish rebels and one civilian have died in clashes in the town.
Turkey has seen spiraling violence since July.
The governor’s office said the curfew was open-ended.
A curfew meanwhile was also imposed in parts of the central Sur district of Diyarbakir city, as the authorities conducted a new operation against suspected Kurdish militants. A pro-Kurdish opposition party says 21 civilians have been killed.
A week-long curfew in the town of Cizre, near the borders with Syria and Iraq, was lifted on Friday.
The city was sealed off while Turkish troops spent eight days carrying out a counter-terrorism operation against the PKK.
Turkey has described Cizre as a hotbed of PKK activity, with one official saying they believed 80 professional PKK fighters were operating there and around 200 young people had taken up arms.
Curfews and other restrictions on movement imposed by the security forces are in place in various south-eastern districts.
Three police were wounded and a young male civilian, named as Seyhmus Sanir, 22, who was working as a waiter in the cafe was killed, the security sources told AFP.
They include Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of pro-Kurdish HDP, whose electoral success jeopardized Erdogan’s plans to rewrite the constitution and change Turkey’s form of government into one dominated by a strong president.
A curfew has been declared for the second time in a week in Turkey’s southeastern Cizre town in Sirnak province, the governor’s office has announced. In response, PKK militants are assassinating police officers and bombing government and security buildings across the country on an nearly daily basis.
The conflict has claimed the lives of more than 1,450 people, including about 120 soldiers and policemen, since 7 July, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
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The remnants of the fighting were still apparent in Cizre, with barricades and trenches blocking streets scattered with empty shell casings and the wrecks of burned-out cars.The length of the curfew in Cizre – meaning that citizens were unable to move freely outside their homes for over a week – also caused global concern.
