Turkey ends two-month anti-PKK military operation in Kurdish town

  12 February 2016    Read: 729
Turkey ends two-month anti-PKK military operation in Kurdish town
Turkish security forces have ended an almost two-month military operation backed by a curfew in the southeastern town of Cizre against rebels of the Kurdistan Worker`s Party (PKK), the interior minister said Thursday.
"The operations in Cizre have been successfully completed as of today," Efkan Ala told state-run TRT television, adding that the curfew would nonetheless continue a little longer, AFP reported.

Cizre, in Turkey`s Sirnak province near the Iraqi and Syrian border, has been under curfew since December 14, when the army launched an "anti-terror operation" in a bid to root out the PKK from the town`s centre where they had erected barricades and dug trenches. The army said Wednesday some 580 militants had been killed in the town since the operations started.

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