Turkey

Ankara finished Anti-PKK operation in Cizre

After several months of urban combat prefer the Turkish army from the southeastern Anatolian city, according to the government. But elsewhere against militant Kurds fought.

Traces of violence: street scene in Cizre (ArchivbildI)

The Turkish government has a two-month military campaign against the rebels of the Kurdistan workers ‘ party PKK in Cizre should be terminated. The use in the southeastern Anatolian city was “very successful”, said interior Minister Efkan Ala. The curfew to remain, however, until further notice is in force.

In Cizre had soldiers and police since December grim squatter fights with PKK supporters delivered. Also were heavy weapons used, and whole streets destroyed.

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The battles were inflamed once the PKK in some cities one-sided Palestinian authority had been declared, and this with road ditches and barricades against the security forces had defended.

According to the HDP, there were in the Kurdengebiet a total of more than 200 civilian victims. According to the government, were several hundred PKK fighters in the fighting, killed.

jj/cr (dpa, afp)