Curfew imposed in Diyarbakır neighborhoods to contain PKK violence

After the curfew was imposed on early Saturday morning in some neighborhoods in the Sur and Yenişehir districts of Diyarbakır province with large scale operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK launched. While Turkish forces are backed by two helicopters in the ongoing operations, it is reported that crack shots were located in high buldings in the regions.

Meanwhile another curfew declared in the Nusaybin district of Turkey's eastern Mardin province on Friday night. Abdulkadirpaşa, Fırat and Yenişehir are the Nusaybin neighborhoods which assumed the curfew at 11:00 p.m. local time until further notice.

“The curfew has been imposed in Nusaybin district's Albulkadirpaşa, Fırat and Yenişehir neighborhoods to re-ensure public order, to protect the right and liberty of public, to prevent further crimes, to neutralize members of the terrorist organization, to capture searching suspects and to remove barricades and close ditches dug by PKK terrorists,” declared Mardin governorship.