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    Turkey partially lifts curfew in Kurdish area, assesses damage

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    Turkey partially lifts curfew in Kurdish area, assesses damage Empty Turkey partially lifts curfew in Kurdish area, assesses damage

    Post by Rocky Tue 31 May 2016, 6:34 am

    Turkey partially lifts curfew in Kurdish area, assesses damage
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    Residents view damage in Diyarbakir’s historic Sur district, Turkish Kurdistan. Photo: Reuters
    ISTANBUL,— Turkish authorities on Monday partially lifted a curfew in Kurdish areas in southeast Turkey where military operations against Kurdish rebels have done extensive damage to housing.
    Turkish Kurdistan [Southeast Turkey] has been the scene of intense fighting between security forces and rebels linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, since December. The Turkish government has promised to reconstruct all areas destroyed in the fighting.
    Since July 2015, Turkey initiated a controversial military [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] against the PKK in the country’s southeastern Kurdish regions. Since the beginning of the campaign, Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews, preventing civilians from fleeing regions where the military operations are being conducted.

    Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday that 6,320 buildings have been damaged amid the fighting in five southeastern towns, affecting some 11,000 apartments. He put the estimated cost of demolishing and rebuilding the affected structures__ in the districts of Sur, Silopi, Cizre, Idil and Yuksekova__ at approximately 855 million Turkish lira ($289 million).
    Meanwhile, the curfew was relaxed at 5 a.m. Monday in the Yuksekova district and a village in Hakkari province. A nighttime curfew, however, will remain from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., according to local officials. The curfew is to be loosened further during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, which this year begins in June.
    Round-the-clock curfews have been slapped on southeast flashpoint areas for weeks to aid military operations. Human rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns over dozens of civilian casualties.
    According to the military an estimated 500 Turkish security personnel have been killed in the operations against Kurdish rebels and have killed 4,900 PKK militants in operations in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, where the PKK has a major bastion.
    Pro-Kurdish opposition political parties say between about 1,000 civilians, mostly Kurds, have perished in the fighting, since the Turkish offensive against the PKK centred in towns and cities in Turkish Kurdistan.

    Limited access to conflict areas in the southeast has made it difficult to verify casualty tolls.
    The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of the country’s 78-million population. Over 40,000 people have been killed.
    A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

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