Melek Alpaydın, 38, died at the scene after shrapnel from the explosive struck her head after breaking through the walls of the three-story house. Another unidentified person was injured and taken to hospital after receiving initial treatment by the emergency team deployed at the scene.
Police forces have opened an investigation into the incident.
Turkish security forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have been clashing in the historical Sur district of Diyarbakır since the first curfew by security forces was declared in early December.
According to the latest data released by the Turkish military, 55 PKK militants have been killed in the district since operations began.
[DİYARBAKIR – Doğan News Agency]
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A woman was killed on Sunday when she was hit in the head by shrapnel from what appears to be a rocket projectile in the southeastern district of Sur, which has been under curfew for more than a month.
The woman was having breakfast when the shell pierced the wall of her house on the second floor of a three-story building in the İskender Paşa neighborhood of Sur, news agencies reported. A child who was in the house during the explosion was also injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.
The woman has been identified as 38-year-old Melek Alpaydın, a mother of three children. The type of shell that hit the house was not immediately clear with some reports claiming it was an artillery shell.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident.
Security forces have been battling militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group, who have dug up trenches and planted explosives in several neighborhoods of Sur, since a curfew was announced in the district on Dec. 2.
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More than 200 people in Istanbul have protested peacefully against curfews and operations in mainly Kurdish cities and towns in southeastern Turkey, where security forces and Kurdish militants are locked in an intensifying conflict...
ReplyDeleteSunday's demonstration was called by the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party. It attracted more riot police than participants, some of whom chanted "long live the resistance of Kurdistan."
Protesters called for an immediate resumption of negotiations between the government and Abdullah Ocalan, the detained leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Riot police chased demonstrators down side streets, detained a handful of protesters and fired a salvo of rubber bullets at the departing crowd. No injuries were reported.
The Turkish military said Saturday that 261 militants have been killed since the start of operations in mid-December.
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A mother of three was killed on Sunday when a mortar shell hit her apartment in a city in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast that has been under curfew for a month...
ReplyDeleteMelek Alpaydin, 38, was eating breakfast when the shell hit her apartment in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency said.
An AFP photographer at the scene said the mortar fire had left a gaping hole in the exterior wall of the second-story apartment.
Bloodstained breakfast trays, tea glasses and bowls could be seen lying on the carpet where she was sitting which was also covered in debris from the damaged wall, as local women wailed in mourning outside, he said.
Dogan said it was not clear where the shell had been fired from but that an investigation was under way.
Much of the city's Sur district has been under a blanket curfew since early December as Turkey security forces seek to drive out militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The curfew is one of several highly-controversial measures imposed on towns in the southeast where the armed forces are waging a relentless campaign against the rebels.....AFP........ahram.org.eg