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Turkey has killed 711 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast since early December last year, the Turkish military has claimed amid the death of a specially trained Turkish commando in clashes with the militant group.

Turkey has detained 23 suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants along with 21 children who were trying to infiltrate Turkey from Syria, the Turkish army has said.  
 
The suspects, whose nationalities were not disclosed, were captured on Jan. 23 as they tried to enter Elbeyli, a district in the southeastern province of Kilis.  
 

Turkey has killed five snipers from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who have caused severe casualties among Turkish security forces, in spot-on military operations in the southeastern towns of Sur and Cizre.

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have detonated an improvised explosive device near a schoolyard in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, wounding five students.

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have detonated an improvised explosive device near a schoolyard in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, wounding five students.

The blast took place at 8.24 a.m. on Jan. 22 at the Nuriye Eser Primary School in Diyarbak?r's Ba?lar district during the distribution of report cards on the last school day of the first semester.

More than 81,000 students in three southeastern Turkish towns will not be able get their half term grade reports on Jan. 22, as education has been suspended in the towns since Dec. 14, 2015. 

Some 17.5 million students across Turkey will enter their 15-day-long semester break on Jan. 22, when they will receive their grade reports. 

A total of 610 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in army operations in Turkey's southeast since operations began, according to new figures released by the Turkish military.

The Turkish military operations backed by curfews in the country's southeast have begun to resemble "collective punishment," Amnesty International said on Jan. 20, also accusing the international community of poor criticism against Turkey. 

One soldier has been killed while six security officers have been wounded in an explosion that took place as a bomb squad was trying to dispose a bomb placed by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found that a jail sentence given to a 15-year-old boy for attending a demonstration in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r in 2008 was disproportionate.