Şırnak

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.

Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has joined the commemoration of the 34 villagers who lost their lives in a Turkish military airstrike in 2011 in the southeastern province of Şırnak, calling on the government find those responsible for the deaths.

Police have captured provocateurs who infiltrated into Turkey to start clashes in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak that left three people dead, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Dec. 28.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s Hizbullah, whose members are mostly Kurdish Islamists, have engaged in fresh street battles in a southeastern province near Turkey's border with Syria, killing at least three, more than two months after the clashes that led to the deaths of 36 people.

Who are you?

My name is Yılmaz Yiğit. I am 35 years old. I am a veteran of the war in the southeast.

How and where did you lose both of your arms and one of your legs?

Four Turkish jets have flown over northern Iraq to mark targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff.

The statement came after three non-uniformed Turkish soldiers were shot dead by masked men in the Yüksekova district of the southeastern province of Hakkari on Oct. 25.

The government has upped the ante in its increasingly heated rhetoric concerning the stalled peace process, with Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç maintaining that the process is not a sine qua non for the government.

Militants from Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Oct. 27 hijacked a truck, seizing 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of the explosive substance ammonium nitrate, the Turkish army said.

Yazidis fleeing Iraq following an offensive by Islamic State (IS) militants have been settled in homes in the southeastern province of Şırnak, Culture Minister Ömer Çelik has said on Aug. 7.

Tens of thousands of Yazidi families, as well as Turkmens living in Iraq’s Sinjar district bordering Syria are desperately trying to escape the militants amid reports of massacres.

Attention to the safety condition of miners working in unlicensed coal mines around the Cudi Mountains in the eastern province of Şırnak has increased since the Soma mine disaster that killed 301 workers in May.