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The Grand Turk
Turkey Ends Two Month Anti-PKK Military Operation in Kurdish Town
2016-02-12
What's the next Kurdish town on the list, now that this one has been destroyed enough to save it?
[AnNahar] 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.

"Control has been re-established in Cizre and over the bandidos gunnies there," he said.

Cizre, in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
'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 center where they had erected barricades and dug trenches.

The army said Wednesday some 580 Lions of Islam had been killed in the town since the operations started.

Kurdish activists claim the campaign has cost dozens of civilian lives and argue the army figure for the number of Lions of Islam killed is grossly exaggerated.

The PKK has killed dozens of members of the Turkish security forces in attacks since a two-and-a-half-year truce collapsed in July.
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