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11 PKK members killed in SE Turkey

Xinhua, January 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

A total of 11 members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed in operations in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish military said Thursday.

The operations were carried out in the towns of Cizre and Silopi, in southeastern Sirnak province, triggering intense fighting since a round-the-clock curfew was declared on Dec. 14 and forced many to flee.

The Turkish armed forces did not specify when the operations took place.

The PKK negotiated a cease-fire with Ankara in 2013, but the truce fell apart in the wake of a suicide bomb attack on July 20, 2015, in the border town of Suruc in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa. Some 34 pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists were killed.

Tension has been running high since then, especially in southeastern Turkey.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. Endit