Since then, 290 members of the security forces have been martyred while 1,250 terrorists have been killed in the Sirnak, Diyarbakir, Mardin, and Mus provinces.
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The clash broke out in the city’s Sur district, parts of which have been devastated in fighting between security forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants since a two-year-old ceasefire collapsed last July.
According to the statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, on Monday, six terrorists were killed, while 14 others surrendered.
Security forces disposed of hundreds of explosives in Idil, a town of two- and three-storey homes with a population of 73,000 people situated 25 km (15 miles) north of the Syrian border, sources said.
Efkan Ala said the military concluded its operations in the city’s Sur neighborhood on Wednesday.
Since August, authorities have been imposing 24-hour curfews in several flashpoint districts in country’s mainly-Kurdish southeast region to ease large-scale operations aimed at rooting out the militants who had set up barricades, dug trenches and planted explosives to protect areas they declared to be under Kurdish self-rule.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the USA and the European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in late July 2015.
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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday the lockdown in Sur would end by March 21.
