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.
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The Turkish government has imposed a 24-hour curfew in the southeastern towns.
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Tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes in Diyarbakir Province, which has been under curfew for weeks amid clashes following an offensive in the mainly Kurdish region, CNN Turk reported, citing the opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP).
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Yesterday one Turkish soldier was killed in clashes in Bitlis, the army said, in an operation that killed two PKK militants. Security forces unleashed teargas as they rushed home through side streets and past shuttered shops.
Armed Kurdish groups associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party should stop digging trenches planted with explosives and erecting barricades to prevent state authorities from entering neighborhoods, Human Rights Watch said. The agency said more than 200 soldiers have been killed since the collapse of a two-year cease-fire in July. The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) said 27 civilians were killed on Tuesday and the Human Rights Association, an NGO, told the DPA news agency on Saturday that civilians who had not fled the city were being killed by rockets and tanks.
Demirtas accused the government and military of targeting citizens who were presented as “terrorists”. The three-decade conflict between Turkish security forces and the PKK rebels have claimed the lives of more than 30,000 people.
“We stand by our people who resist the tanks and shelling”, he said on Tuesday before heading to Moscow to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The visit is likely to further damage ties between Russia and Turkey, already at a low over the downing of a Russian warplane by the Turkish air force last month. Also, 10 other terrorists were detained. Lawmakers can not be prosecuted unless stripped of immunity by parliament. Since that time, over 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has continually vowed to wipe out the PKK, a group that the Turkish government and its allies, including the United States and the European Union, consider a terrorist organization.
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Millions of Kurds across the region and in Europe support or sympathize with the PKK.
