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Three members of the security forces have been killed during clashes with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sur district of Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, which has been under a military curfew for the past month.

Two members of the security forces have been killed during clashes with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sur district of Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, which has been under a military curfew for the past month. 

One soldier was killed late on Jan. 3 during clashes with alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, which has been subjected to a curfew for the past month.

One woman was killed and another was wounded after a rocket projectile hit a house and exploded during the clashes on Jan. 3 in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, where a military curfew is ongoing.

The Turkish Chief of General Staff announced on Jan.2 that a total of 261 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the ongoing operations in three southeastern districts under curfew.

The Sur district of Diyarbak?r province continues to be kept under military curfew. 

Security forces are trying to remove barricades, which are often "manned" by mere teenagers, from the streets. As important as it is to resolve the security problem, our questions cannot stop there. 

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation on Dec. 28 over the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair's remarks on autonomy as a part of articles regarding crimes against constitutional order and its operation in the Turkish criminal law.

The People's Democratic Party (HDP) has insisted on self-rule in southeastern Anatolia as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu canceled a meeting with the party over the constitution, accusing the HDP of violence.

Fierce clashes continued Dec. 22 in several southeastern Turkish towns and cities as hundreds of people, including children, were removed from their houses in Silopi, a town in ??rnak, to safe spots by security forces. 

More outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed, the military said while one more soldier was also killed. 

A Turkish court has ordered a 52-year-old storekeeper to serve minimum prison time for sexually abusing a mentally-disabled girl in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, because of the girl's inability to comprehend the legal consequences of what she was exposed to.