The GSM and internet lines were reportedly opened for usage during the day on Sept. 11 but would be once again blocked at night, while three markets and one bakery, which serves at most five loaves of bread to each family, were allowed to open for citizens to meet their needs after eight days of being forcefully confined to their homes due to the curfew announced on Sept. 4, Doğan News Agency reported.
Ali Rıza Alaboyun, the energy and natural resources minister of the interim government, told a group of journalists on Sept. 11 in Ankara that power distribution units in Cizre could have been damaged on a small scale “but the electricity flowing to Cizre and the transformers were actively working.”
Meanwhile, five police officers were wounded as they were patrolling the area inside a vehicle at around 10:45 a.m. on Sept. 11 when members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated a bomb they had planted under a manhole, the Şırnak governorate said in a statement.
It added the responding police officers were targeted with hand grenades and gunfire as they tried to evacuate the wounded officers from the scene.
A group of around 300 attorneys from various provinces across Turkey attempted to march to Cizre to defend the rights of the citizens in the district but were stopped by police forces with anti-riot vehicles at the outskirts of southeastern province of Mardin’s Midyat district on Sept. 11, daily BirGün reported on its website. The Şırnak governorate also stated the initial examination of a baby around 35 days old, who died in Cizre, did not indicate it was killed by sharp object and the cause death would be determined later in the general autopsy.
Meanwhile, Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks has urged Turkish authorities to allow independent observers to enter Cizre, amid growing concerns of serious human rights violations.
“Thus far, the information provided by the authorities does not allay all concerns. I urge the authorities to ensure immediate access to Cizre by independent observers, including by Turkey’s national human rights structures, in order to dispel the rumors of human rights violations perpetrated by security forces. I hope for a quick end to this emergency situation,” Muiznieks said in a written statement Sept. 11. “I have received reports that public life, including essential services such as healthcare, and means of communication have been severely disrupted as a result [of the curfew], and that entry and exit from the city have been barred.
More disturbingly, I have also received serious allegations of disproportionate use of force by security forces against civilians,” he said.
hurriyetdailynews.com
11/9/15
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Turkey to lift curfew in embattled town of Cizre...
ReplyDeleteGovernment says up to 32 outlawed PKK fighters killed in Cizre, as pro-Kurdish party contends civilian death toll is 21.
Turkey has said it will lift a week-long curfew in a southeastern town imposed to support a military operation against Kurdish rebels but which has also fuelled fears of a possible humanitarian crisis.
The curfew in Cizre, in place since September 4, will end on Saturday at 7am (04:00 GMT), said a statement from the Sirnak province governor, Ali Ihsan Su.
The operation against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters had sparked concern for Cizre's inhabitants, with reports of food running out, residents unable to seek urgent treatment and even burials impossible.
"During this time, our security forces carried out a successful operation against members of the Separatist Terror Organisation," the statement said, using the customary official term for the PKK......................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/turkey-lift-curfew-embattled-town-cizre-150911164538843.html
The eight-day curfew in the town of Cizre in Turkey's southeastern province of Sirnak has ended at 7 a.m. local time (0400GMT) Saturday, officials said...
ReplyDeleteTurkey’s Sirnak governorate announced on Friday that the curfew, which came into effect on Sept. 4, would end on Saturday.
Turkish security forces have been conducting an anti-terror operation around the town of Cizre to counter PKK attacks. Following a suicide bomb attack in July -- blamed on Daesh -- in the province of Sanliurfa that killed 33 people, PKK terrorist organization has renewed its armed campaign against Turkish forces.
The renewed violence has threatened the "solution process” officially initiated in early 2013, aimed at ending the 30-year conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state.
Since July, more than 100 members of the security forces have been martyred and hundreds of PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq, including airstrikes.
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