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| The Grand Turk |
| Cizre becomes ghost town amidst clashes with PKK |
| 2015-11-26 |
| [Hurriyet] The southeastern town of Cizre has become a ghost town following festivities during a 12-hour curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) holy warriors, which left one police officer killed. Having seen a number of curfews over the past several months, with the latest in place for 12 hours, Cizre has become a ghost town, whose pictures show vehicles burnt, buildings with bullet damage on their outer walls, stores with window glass smashed, homes destroyed and looted, pavement cracked and several other damages in the curfew-hit town. The latest curfew was imposed at 2 p.m. on Nov. 24 and lifted at 6 a.m. on Nov. 25. During the anti-terror operation on Nov. 24, the police officer identified as Umut Tuncay was injured during festivities with holy warriors in Cizre, a district in the southeastern province of Sirnak, but later departed this vale of tears at the Cizre Public Hospital where he was taken for treatment, the Sirnak Governor's Office said in a written statement. The governor's office added that Tuncay was killed after PKK holy warriors shot up a checkpoint in Cizre's Yafes neighborhood on Nov. 24. "In operations launched to capture the perpetrators of the attack, five PKK holy warriors were killed," said the governor's office, adding that the operation was ongoing. In a separate incident in Sirnak's Idil district, a police officer was injured after PKK holy warriors fired shots with automatic guns at a police convoy patrolling a major road around 12 p.m. on Nov. 25. The festivities between security forces and holy warriors from the outlawed organization were reported to be ongoing and the injured police officer was taken to the Idil Public Hospital for treatment. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has stepped up efforts to secure its borders and nearby areas in its east and southeast in particular, with cross-border military operations, aerial campaigns and domestic operations against PKK holy warriors. The indeterminate curfew in Nusaybin, a district in the southeastern province of Mardin, is on its 14th day on Nov. 26, with anti-terror operations reportedly ongoing in the southeastern town. Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase... Turkish police detained more than 30 suspected members of the PKK in multiple raids in Istanbul and Ankara on Nov. 25. Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers launched an anti-terror operation against suspected PKK members early Nov. 25, raiding at least 20 separate homes in Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, with 12 people detained. In the southern province of Adana, counterterrorism coppers detained 20 suspected members of the PKK in an anti-terror operation against the outlawed organization. |
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