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The southeastern province of ??rnak continued to roiled by violence on Jan. 6, with one soldier and three women killed in separate incidents in two districts under military curfew.

A special operations sergeant was killed on the morning of Jan. 5 in front of his home in ??rnak city by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, Do?an News Agency reported. 

One civilian was killed and two others were wounded on Jan. 3 during clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the restive southeastern town of Silopi. 

Yusuf Ya??c? was killed after he and his family were caught in the cross-fire in the Barbaros neighborhood of Silopi, located in the southeastern province of ??rnak. 

Three members of the security forces have been killed during clashes with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Sur district of Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, which has been under a military curfew for the past month.

The Turkish Chief of General Staff announced on Jan.2 that a total of 261 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in the ongoing operations in three southeastern districts under curfew.

One policeman has been killed while a police officer and a soldier have been wounded in a bomb attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r's Sur district, which has been under military curfew since Dec. 2, 2015.

PKK militants detonated an improvised explosive device in Sur on Jan.1, wounding two police officers and one soldier.

One policeman was killed and five others were injured during a counter-terrorism operation targeting outlawed PKK militants in the southeastern province of ??rnak on Dec. 31, 2015.

Security forces were conducting operations to fill in ditches and dissemble barricades in the Cizre district, which is under curfew, security sources said.

Turkey's fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) will be carried on in 2016 with determination, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has vowed, claiming that 3,100 militants have been killed so far by security forces in one of the most intensified military campaigns in the last three decades. 

The Turkish army has deployed specially trained military forces in the southeastern town of Cizre, which has been under curfew for more than two weeks, to deactivate improvised explosive devices that cannot be seen to the naked eye.

The historical district of Sur in Diyarbak?r has now been subject to a curfew for the past month amid continuing clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the area.

Diyarbak?r's Sur district has turned into a zone of continued clashes with a curfew in effect since Dec. 2, apart from a break of only 17 hours on Dec. 10. 

A recent call for self-governance supported by their party was a key to a substantial unification of Turkey's peoples, a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has argued, defending self-governance for the entire country, not only for southeastern Anatolia.