Cizre

A delegation from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-chair and deputies, who were denied entry into the southeastern town of Cizre, where the citizens have been living under a curfew for eight days, returned to neighboring Diyarbak?r on Sept. 11 after holding their party group meeting there. 

According to the French News Agency, six people, including a 7-year old child and 3 civilians were killed in the ongoing clashes between the Turkish special forces and the Kurdish PKK rebels in two separate incidents in Turkey, Thursday.

Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), has called on the PKK to convene an extraordinary congress to "end the 40-year-long arms struggle" against Turkey. 

A Syrian woman was killed by security forces while she was trying to cross into Turkey illegally through a mined area on the border.

The woman, identified as Nezahat Celal, reportedly was shot at around 7 p.m. on Jan. 29 near the border town of Cizre in the province of ??rnak.

Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has slammed the fact that the authorities have yet to identify any suspects regarding the seven recent killings in the restive town of Cizre in the southeastern province of ??rnak, which has been roiled by protests for the past month.

It is unbelievable. The president of the country is speaking and sending everyone into shock. Can elements within the state plot against the state, plant bombs with the state's armored cars and murder people in cold blood?

Photojournalist Metin Göktepe, who was beaten to death while in police custody, was commemorated on the 19th anniversary of his death on Jan. 8, with family and friends holding banners in support of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a day after the attack on its Paris headquarters killed 12 people.

Suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fired a rocket at an armored police vehicle and opened fire on a police station in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre on Jan. 7, injuring two officers in a surge of violence threatening a fragile peace process.

The municipality of Cizre, the southeastern town in the province of Şırnak that recently witnessed deadly unrest, has begun closing ditches dug by the youth branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The ditches had been dug in a bid to prevent the security forces enter particular neighborhoods.