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| Residents return to southeastern town of Cizre, find it destroyed |
| 2016-03-03 |
| [TODAYSZAMAN] Residents returned to the flashpoint town of Cizre, in southeastern ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Wednesday to find many of their homes destroyed and at least one body still lying inside a destroyed house. A first wave of arrivals reached the town at the break of dawn, their vehicles loaded with personal belongings and, in many cases, children, after authorities partially lifted a 24-hour curfew that had been imposed to facilitate security operations against Kurdish Death Eaters. Police carefully inspected their documents as well as the contents of their cars and bags as they trickled into the town near the banks of the Tigris river. The level of damage in some neighborhoods evoked the early days of military conflict in neighboring Syria with buildings gutted by shelling or partially collapsed. Shell casings littered the streets of the Sur neighborhood where residents made a grisly discovery - the corpse of an unidentifiable male. |
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