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Terrorist State of Turkey imposes curfew, launches ‘huge’ operation against Kurdish fighters

March 7, 2017 By administrator

ANF NEWS Report: Turkish authorities imposed a round-the-clock curfew in 18 villages in the Kurdish province of Diyarbakir as the army launched a vast operation on Sunday against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the area.

The Ankara-appointed Diyarbakir Governor’s office said in a press release on its website the mountainous region and forests around the districts of Kulp, Lice, and Hani served as a bastion for the outlawed Kurdish fighters.

There was no comment as of yet on the website of PKK’s armed wing, People Defense Forces (HPG) that has been locked in a decades-long conflict with the Turkish army over Kurdish rights.

The governorate release read that the operation’s objective was “to neutralize high-ranking terrorists, and capture their accomplices.”

In a joint statement with other Kurdish parties, the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said thousands of villagers in the area could not be reached as telephone lines and Internet coverage were cut off.

“A new addition to the violations of human rights, massacres, and genocide in Kurdistan where a dirty war is being waged,” read the HDP statement.

Seven thousand troops, including 16 army commando battalions, about 800 police special operations personnel and more than 500 government-paid Kurdish paramilitaries were participating in the operation, one of the biggest seen in years.

In the neighboring Kurdish province of Elazig, the governorate announced 15 regions covering scores of villages in Alacakaya, Aricak, Karakocan and Palu as “military private zones” that would restrict entrance and exit of civilians without a permit.

Footage released by the state-funded Anadolu Agency showed 17 personnel carrier helicopters on board with hundreds of soldiers taking off from army bases in northern Diyarbakir.

Helicopters then landed winter clad soldiers on snow-covered high mountain tops.

The pro-PKK Firat news agency reported that Turkish jets, Cobra and Sikorsky helicopters were bombing the area in the last 24 hours.

Harsh curfews in Diyarbakir followed a fortnight-long one in February in the Xerabe Bava village in Mardin which became a focal point of allegations of mass arrests and torture of civilians by the army.

A renewed round of Kurdish-Turkish conflict erupted after a two years held ceasefire and peace talks collapsed in mid-2015.

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Turkey announces curfew in rural areas near southeastern Diyarbakir

June 4, 2016 By administrator

curfew diyarbakirTurkey has declared a round-the-clock curfew in rural areas near the southeastern city of Diyarbakir ahead of a planned military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) .

The curfew was announced at 10:30 am (0730 GMT) in 10 areas of Lice in Diyarbakir Province, where PKK militants, including senior operatives are believed to be active, a statement by the provincial governor’s office said Saturday.

The curfew came a day after Turkish security forces called an end to operations targeting PKK militants in the town of Nusaybin near the Syrian border and in Sirnak near the border with Iraq.

More than 1,000 people, mostly PKK militants, have been killed in three months of clashes in those areas, according to security sources.

Ankara has been engaged in a large-scale campaign against the PKK in its southern border region in the past few months. The Turkish military has been conducting offensives against the positions of the militant group in northern Iraq as well.

Turkey’s operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern town of Suruc.

More than 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

After the bombing, the PKK, which accuses the Ankara government of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.

A shaky ceasefire between Ankara and the PKK that had stood since 2013 was declared null and void by the militants following the Turkish strikes against the group.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since 1984. The conflict has left more than 40,000 people dead.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: curfew, Diyarbakir, Diyarbakır Mayor Baydemir acquitted on terror charges, Kurd, Turkey

Turkey After twelve days of fighting and curfew, licking its wounds Silvan

November 23, 2015 By administrator

arton118998-480x240When fighting erupted in early Silvan, Sahin Dönmez fled with his family, without looking back. “That,” he sighs amid the charred living room, “the fruit of forty years of work gone up in smoke.”

As Dönmez, many inhabitants of Mescit district of Silvan, in the southeast of Turkey Kurdish majority, almost lost everything in the recent fighting between Kurds and Turkish youth are security forces.

For twelve days, the army tanks and snipers anti-terrorist police have tracked the fighters of the Revolutionary Patriotic Youth (YDG-H), close to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in three districts of the City, submitted by local authorities to a strict curfew.

The toll was heavy. At least 10 people killed, according to the Governorate of Diyarbakir province: an army officer, two policemen, two civilians and five Kurdish fighters.

In targeted districts, the damage is considerable. Nedret Yakan, 35, contemplates the toothless window of his hairdresser, broken mirrors, shattered furniture. His estimate of the damage? “Twenty years of my life,” she said, “destroyed in a few days.”

A little further, neighbors searched the rubble of their former life. They extirpate a sofa or a miracle washing machine and load it on a truck. Destination “peace.”

Dogan Celik had less luck. The building that housed the restaurant, the grocery store and the apartment he owned was destroyed by explosives laid, he said, by supporters of the PKK. “Last week, I was rich. Today, I have nothing more, “if he laments.

The wall of his living room is ripped open, riddled with bullets and sofas covered with plaster. On a low table, sockets by handles. “There’s nothing to save.”

Since the summer, the weapons speak again in the southeast of Turkey. After more than two years of a fragile cease-fire, the resumption of fighting has extinguished the hopes of resolving a conflict that has claimed more than 40,000 lives since 1984.

- ‘The state is’ –

Traditional attacks military convoy in rural and mountainous areas, the rebels this time seem to favor the urban front, hoping to provoke uprisings. A few successful strategy so far, and endangers civilians.

A Silvan fighters YDG-H have entrenched themselves in Sahin Dönmez, accusing its neighbors. The facade studded impacts of projectiles of all calibers and heavy metal door holes as Swiss cheese testify to the violence of the fighting.

Sahin exhibits the remains of an incendiary device. “That’s what triggered (the fire),” he said. From which side came the fire? “We do not know,” says the inhabitant, “but it started to burn when the police entered the neighborhood.”

Behind the confusion of the population, largely acquired the rebel cause, anger against the Turkish government is never far away. On the walls of houses, some slogans are experienced as provocations. “The state is,” proclaims one of them.

“These young people who erect barricades are angry because of the violent policies of the government,” explained Thursday at a press conference co-chair of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (HDP, pro-Kurdish) Figen Yüksekdag. “We must resume the peace process is the only way to solve the problem.”

As in Silvan, many cities have been the scene of this new urban warfare and submitted to the curfew. Cizre, Lice, Nusaybin, Diyarbakir …

In Mescit neighborhood, life has gradually resumed. Workers are busy restoring the electrical grid, women rush to replenish supplies. In the streets, police armored monitor the dismantling of the last barricades.

“A new home, a new life. We will try, “mutters Sahin Dönmez. Nedret, she sent her children with relatives in Istanbul. “If you help me repair my shop, I could go back to work,” she said. “Only, I can not do, I can not give him another twenty years of my life.”

Monday, November 23, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

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Turkey Curfew re-declared in tense Cizre, where numerous civilians were killed in clashes

September 13, 2015 By administrator

228732A curfew, which was lifted as of Saturday morning after it had been in place for eight days in the restive district of Cizre in the southeastern Şırnak province, has been re-declared on Sunday.

According to media reports, the Şırnak Governor’s Office declared a new curfew in Cizre, the district where the prolonged curfew has left behind a scene resembling a battlefield due to days-long clashes between Turkish security forces and terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The curfew reportedly began at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) reported on Saturday that 22 civilians were killed in clashes in the district with a population of more than 100,000.

On Saturday, Interim Minister of European Union Affairs Ali Haydar Konca also reported the deaths of more than 20 civilians, adding that approximately 50 had been injured while the curfew was in place.

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BBC Report Turkey lifts week-long curfew on Kurdish city of Cizre

September 12, 2015 By administrator

_85499194_85499193Turkey has lifted a week-long curfew imposed on the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern city of Cizre, media reports say.

Cizre was sealed off since last Friday after the Turkish army launched an operation against Kurdish militants there.

Civilian casualties have been reported and there are concerns about food shortages.

The Council of Europe has asked Turkey to allow access to observers.

Amid the operation against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), Cizre locals have also complained of shortages of water and electricity. People have also been unable to bury their dead.

Grim reports from Turkey’s Cizre

Turkey-PKK conflict: Why are clashes escalating?

A statement from the local authorities thanked Cizre residents for their patience during the “successful operation against the terror organisation”.

Twenty civilians have died since Friday, eyewitnesses said, although the government has said only one civilian died and that the rest were militants.

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.

But Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, has described the curfew as a “death sentence” for Kurds in the Kurdish-majority city of 100,000 people.

One doctor, who is responsible for more than 4,000 patients but cannot leave his home, told the BBC that the emergency department at the state hospital was closed and pharmacies were not opening.

Violence has surged between the Turkish government and the PKK since a ceasefire collapsed in July.

On Friday, an attack on a cafe in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir left a waiter dead and three policemen injured.

More than 40,000 people have died since the PKK launched an armed campaign in 1984, calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.

 

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Turkey: Curfew declared in Turkey’s east over clashes with PKK fighters

August 16, 2015 By administrator

MUŞ – Anadolu Agency

DHA photo

DHA photo

A curfew has been declared in the Varto district of eastern Muş province over clashes with outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), while five security personnel were killed in attacks over the weekend.

Muş Governor Vedat Büyükersoy said the governorate had declared a curfew starting from 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 16 until further notice in order to provide security, Anadolu Agency reported.

Büyükersoy added PKK militants were present in Varto and operations against the militants were continuing.
Early on Aug. 16, PKK militants raided a worksite in the district and demolished a bridge at an entrance to the district with bulldozers they had seized.

In the eastern province of Kars, one soldier was killed Aug. 16 in armed clashes between the local gendarmerie and suspected PKK militants.

The clashes erupted during a gendarmerie special team operation in Kars’ Kağızman district. Gendarmerie CSM Nurettin Öztürk succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Another wounded soldier was reported to be in a good condition.

Three suspected PKK militants were killed in the clash and their weapons were seized. An air-supported security operation started in the area.

The clashes came one day after three soldiers and a police officer were killed in attacks by the PKK in eastern Turkey.

The three soldiers were killed when an explosive device laid by PKK militants on a road in the Karlıova district of eastern Bingöl province was detonated on Aug. 15, the Turkish Army said in a statement. “Three of our soldiers were martyred and six wounded,” the army said.

An official ceremony was held in Bingöl for three fallen soldiers identified as Gendarmerie NCO Muhammed Gürlek, Specialized Sgt. Haşim Dirik and Specialized Sgt. Musa Saydam.

The body of Gürlek was set to be laid to rest in the western province of Osmaniye, while Dirik’s body was sent to the Aegean province of Manisa for his funeral. Saydam’s body was sent to the western province of Kırıkkale, where he would be laid to rest.

Later on Aug. 15 a police commissar died after coming under attack by PKK militants as security forces were sealing trenches dug by the rebels in the Şemdinli district of the southeastern Hakkari province, Doğan News Agency reported.

Police Commissar Ahmet Çamur, 46, was brought to the Black Sea province of Trabzon for his funeral and burial after an official military ceremony was held in the southeastern province of Van.

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Curfew imposed in Turkey

October 8, 2014 By administrator

curfew-turkeyFollowing the mass protests by Kurds, the Turkish authorities have declared curfew, Lenta.ru reported.

According to the source, fourteen people were killed and dozens were injured during the mass demonstrations.

The curfew was imposed in several provinces.

The Kurdish protests in Turkey are due to the fact that the Islamists have virtually captured Kobani, which is a Syrian city on the Turkish border and which is the capital of the Kurdish autonomy.

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