Social projects for terror victims discussed at security summit
Date
12/31/2015 12:21:54 PM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) A security summit helmed by Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoluwas held Dec. 31 in the Turkish capitalAnkarawith the participation of senior military and government officials.
The five-hour meeting focused on the struggle against the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) particularly the ongoing clashes in southeastern Diyarbakr’s Sur district according to officials.
Other than the routine participants of security summits the family and social policies minister the environment and urbanization minister and the customs and trade minister also attended the meeting for discussions on social projects and rehabilitation of the region in the post-clashes era.
Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar Deputy Prime Ministers Numan Kurtulmu Yalçn Akdoan and Turul Türke Justice Minister Bekir Bozda Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuolu Interior Minister Efkan Ala Defense Minister smet Ylmaz Gendarmerie Commander Galip Mendi and intelligence chief Hakan Fidan were among the participants.
The fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) measures taken against possible terror attacks particularly for the beginning of the new year and developments regarding Syrian Kurds’ movements in northern Syria and Bashiqa military camp in northern Iraq were also among the discussion points.
The historical district of Sur has now been subject to a curfew for the past month amid continuing clashes between Turkish security forces and the PKK.
Sur 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.
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