December 2015–February 2016 Cizre curfew

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) detonated a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of ??rnak overnight, killing three police officers and wounding four others in an armored vehicle, security sources said Jan. 18. 

One policeman was killed and five others were injured during a counter-terrorism operation targeting outlawed PKK militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak on Dec. 31, 2015.

Security forces were conducting operations to fill in ditches and dissemble barricades in the Cizre district, which is under curfew, security sources said.

One soldier was killed while two others were wounded in clashes with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of ??rnak, Turkish Armed Forces has announced. 

Security forces have killed 55 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in operations in Turkey's southeastern districts over the past three days, while one soldier has been killed in clashes on Dec. 18, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Turkish Airlines has announced on its website that flights to Turkey's southeastern ??rnak province will be cancelled for a second day on Dec. 16 amid curfews and clashes.

"Flights listed below have been cancelled due to operational reasons," the airlines announced in a message to its customers with tickets to ??rnak.

The southeastern town of Cizre has become a ghost town following clashes during a 12-hour curfew imposed for military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, which left one police officer killed. 

We have seen many times in the recent past sad examples in the name of democracy of how a submissive justice can turn into a weapon in the hands of political powers. When a physical attack was not enough, the justice weapon has now turned to daily Hürriyet. The target is freedom of expression and freedom of the press.

Thousands of relatives and mourners marched through the center of the mainly-Kurdish southeastern city of Cizre on Sept. 13 to bury over a dozen people who lost their lives in clashes during a nine-day Turkish army imposed curfew.

The mourners carried the coffins of 16 people to a funeral ceremony before their burial.

Sweden?s FM Margot Wallström has called HDP co-chair Demirta? and voiced her concerns over recent attacks against the party, as well as the siege of Cizre in southeastern ??rnak province where a curfew entered its eight day.

Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Mui?nieks has urged Turkish authorities to allow independent observers to enter Cizre, amid growing concerns of serious human rights violations.