Dicle News Agency

Close to 230,000 refugees from Kobane and Sinjar that have fled to Turkey due to jihadist attacks on their homes will not be given anything but emergency healthcare in Turkey, according to a circular by an official prime ministerial agency, several media outlets have reported.

A young man who entered a military post without permission in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has been shot and wounded by soldiers. The man, identified only as R.K., was taken to hospital soon after the incident, which came as rising tensions in the region spilled over into protests.

An accord to end Turkey’s decades-old Kurdish issue must be completed before the general elections scheduled for June 2015, according to People’s Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş.

“The Kurdish issue cannot shoulder another election. Considering the general trends in the Middle East, this should happen,” he said Nov. 20.