December 2015–February 2016 Cizre curfew

Cizre, a town in southeast Turkey, has been under curfew since Sept. 4, with entries and exits banned to the city. 

More than 100,000 people live in this city. The reason Cizre has been "under siege," according to official statements, is because the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has dug up ditches and has placed explosives on roads and buildings.   

The Turkish government brushed aside calls by opposition parties to lift the week-long curfew in Cizre in the southeastern province of ??rnak, as it also insisted on blocking members of parliament from entering the area. 

A Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) deputy, who entered Turkey?s southeastern province of ??rnak?s Cizre district, where a curfew has been in place since Sept. 4, said two young people were killed in clashes with security forces, while the damages of the clashes in Diyarbak?r?s Sur district following the lift of a day-long curfew have been revealed. 

Three civilians were killed during clashes between Turkish security personnel and outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak?s Cizre district on Aug. 27, amid claims by a Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) deputy saying three more people were killed and seven others were wounded in clashes in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari.

Turkey?s Interior Ministry has admitted that police might have been responsible for shooting dead 12-year-old Nihat Kazanhan in Cizre last week, despite earlier claims by PM Ahmet Davuto?lu that police were not involved.

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.