3 killed, 7 injured in SE Turkey clashes: Official
At least three civilians have reportedly been killed in street clashes between Turkish forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in a mainly Kurdish-populated area in the country’s southeast.
Turkey’s Today’s Zaman daily cited Abdullah Zeydan, a legislator with the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, as saying on Thursday that the fatalities were caused during confrontations in three neighborhoods of the Yuksekova district in the country’s Hakkari Province.
The violence came after police intervened following protests held by PKK members and “sympathizers,” according to the paper.
The clashes erupted after a curfew was declared to ensure security in Yuksekova following an increase in violence in the area.
The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.
There has been renewed conflict between the PKK and Turkish security forces since July.
Turkey has been launching airstrikes against purported Daesh targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq, after a bomb attack, attributed to Daesh, left 32 people dead on July 20 in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, across the border from the northern Syrian town of Kobani.
A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared as null by the PKK following the Turkish airstrikes against the group, narrowing chances of the two sides to reach a deal in the near future.
Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported last Friday that the country had killed at least 771 “suspected” PKK militants in “operations carried out by Turkey’s security forces between July 22 and August 20.”
Reports say dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with PKK militants over the past weeks.
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