Turkey- Cizre curfew to end mayor dismissed

9/12/2015 4:54:11 AM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Cizre's eight-day curfew will end at 7 a.m. local time (0400GMT) Saturday Turkey’s Sirnak governorate announced on Friday.

According to an official statement the curfew which came into effect on September 4 will end as of 12 September.

The news comes on the same day Turkey's Interior Ministry revealed that the town’s mayor has been dismissed.

Sirnak governorate said: “Our security forces have conducted a successful operation against the members of [a] separatist terror organization. And we offer our sincere gratitude to our valuable citizens of Cizre who have been acting with patience and sensibility.”

Sirnak governorate also stated the operations will continue in order to protect security life as well as restore public order.

Cizre mayor dismissed

Meanwhile Turkey’s Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that Cizre mayor Leyla Imret has been removed from office.

Cizre's chief prosecutor's office is to open a case against Imret on charges of "provoking the public to armed rebellionagainst the government of Republic of Turkey and carrying out propaganda for a terrorist organization and inciting people to hostility and hate".

Turkish security forces are conducting an anti-terror operation around Cizre town to counter PKK attacks; the violence ramped up at the end of July following a suicide bomb attack -- blamed on Daesh -- in Sanliurfa province that killed 33 pro-Kurdish activists.

The renewed violence ended the “solution process” officially initiated in early 2013 aimed at ending the 30-year conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state.

Since July more than 100 members of the security forces have been martyred and hundreds of PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq including airstrikes.

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