Cizre

Establishing permanent peace and ensuring democracy by working with today's government is not easy work, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-head Selahattin Demirta? has said. 

Government officials have held intensified meetings with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies over unrest in the southeastern district of Cizre, which has risen sharply with the recent killings of youngsters, allegedly by the police.

The parents of a 14-year-old boy who was allegedly shot dead by police last week in the southeastern district of Cizre have vowed to pursue justice "in this world and the next," demanding that their son's killers be prosecuted.

A 14-year-old who was allegedly shot dead by police in the southeastern district of Cizre on Jan. 6 was directly targeted, according to a report prepared by the ??rnak Bar Association's Human Rights Center.

Ümit Kurt. DHA Photo

Turkish police allegedly shot dead a 14-year-old late Jan. 6 in the southeastern district of Cizre, in the latest deadly incident to occur in the area following an outbreak of violence between Kurdish Islamists and supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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.