Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Turkey?s Interior Ministry has admitted that police might have been responsible for shooting dead 12-year-old Nihat Kazanhan in Cizre last week, despite earlier claims by PM Ahmet Davuto?lu that police were not involved.

A 14-year-old high school student has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after being struck by a tear-gas canister fired by soldiers in the restive southeastern province of ??rnak amid continuing violence in the area.

The morning of Jan. 18 began with bomb denunciations for police and locals at three separate locations in Istanbul.

Government officials have held intensified meetings with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies over unrest in the southeastern district of Cizre, which has risen sharply with the recent killings of youngsters, allegedly by the police.

A 14-year-old who was allegedly shot dead by police in the southeastern district of Cizre on Jan. 6 was directly targeted, according to a report prepared by the ??rnak Bar Association's Human Rights Center.

A far-left Turkish group on Jan. 9 retracted its claim of responsibility for a suicide bombing of a police station in central Istanbul this week.

Terrorist attacks are possible in every country and Turkey has been and will continue to take all necessary security measures, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said, when questioned whether Turkey is at risk of an attack similar to the one that took place at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris a few days ago.

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan would not leave prison even if he was released, Selahattin Demirta?, the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has quoted him as saying.

Suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fired a rocket at an armored police vehicle and opened fire on a police station in the southeastern Turkish town of Cizre on Jan. 7, injuring two officers in a surge of violence threatening a fragile peace process.

The prohibited Marxist DHKP-C group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack carried out in Istanbul on Tuesday.

The group, which is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and the US, claimed responsibility for the attack on its website, the BBC reports.