Curfew

Did you see that photograph? It was not from Vietnam and the people in the photograph were not Vietnamese trying to escape American soldiers. Nor were they Turkish Cypriots running away from the Nikos Sampson-led Greek Cypriot hordes paid by Athens to annex the island to Greece. They were Turkish citizens trying to escape from a curfew to be imposed on their town within hours?

Education services have ground to a halt in a number of southeastern Turkish towns during curfews imposed to conduct casualty-free military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, daily Hürriyet has reported.

Clashes have erupted in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakır province after police refused to permit a rally protesting an ongoing curfew

As deadly violence continues in several towns in Turkey's southeast, many schools stayed closed on Dec. 14 as large numbers of people left their homes, amid reports that the security forces were preparing a large-scale operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). 

Thousands of teachers working in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Cizre and Silopi have started fleeing to their hometowns, less than 24 hours before the announcement of indeterminate curfews in the two towns.

Doctors' 24-hour shifts at hospitals will become one week-long shifts in curfew-hit areas of Turkey's restive southeast, Health Minister Mehmet Müezzino?lu has told daily Hürriyet.

Residents of the Sur district in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r have fled their homes during a short break in a curfew that has been in place for over a week amid clashes between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

A brief lifting of the curfew exposed the scale of the destruction, as residents packed their belongings before fleeing the district to safety

Turkey's prime minister has said the pistol found next to the dead body of Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer who was killed during clashes after the killing of two police officers in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was the same weapon used in the first incident.

Photos display the destruction in the southeastern province of Mardin’s Nusaybin district after a 13-day curfew was lifted on Nov. 26