Cizre

Eight members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in fighting with security forces in the southeastern town of Cizre, as the army launched major operations backed by curfews against urban-based PKK militants.

The authorities plan to implement even stricter practices during curfews imposed in districts in Turkey's southeast for military operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), daily Hürriyet has reported.

The photographs of our citizens leaving the southeastern towns of Cizre and Silopi before the curfew started; what did these pictures remind you of? Is there any difference from the images we saw in the starting days of the Syrian civil war? 

As deadly violence continues in several towns in Turkey's southeast, many schools stayed closed on Dec. 14 as large numbers of people left their homes, amid reports that the security forces were preparing a large-scale operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

The southeastern town of Cizre has become a ghost town following clashes during a 12-hour curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, which left one police officer killed. 

A  Turkish court has acquitted eight defendants of all charges related to 21 unsolved murders in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of ??rnak between 1993 and 1995, sparking outrage among the victims' families and their lawyers.

The clock has started ticking. Whether you like it or not, the ballot box is coming to a school near you very soon.The clock has started ticking. Whether you like it or not, the ballot box is coming to a school near you very soon. But which school? Who knows? Will you be able to vote? Who knows, who cares? The question is: Do you care?

More than 20 civilians died in the southeastern town of Cizre of the ??rnak province in clashes during the eight-day curfew between Sept. 4 and 12, eyewitnesses and relatives of the dead have told news website Radikal, elaborating on how the civilian deaths occurred.

An eight-member committee, including Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekda? and HDP deputy Ertu?rul Kürkçü, has met with the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) administration, headquartered in northern Iraq's Kandil Mountains, on recent developments.

Thousands of relatives and mourners marched through the center of the mainly-Kurdish southeastern city of Cizre on Sept. 13 to bury over a dozen people who lost their lives in clashes during a nine-day Turkish army imposed curfew.

The mourners carried the coffins of 16 people to a funeral ceremony before their burial.