Curfew Lifted in Southeast Turkish Diyarbakir's Baglar District
- 8 years ago
Turkish authorities lifted a curfew imposed to fight Kurdish militants in an area of southeast Turkey's largest city, Diyarbakir, on Monday but security was tight as Kurds celebrated the Newroz spring festival.
NATO-member Turkey is on heightened alert after a series of bombings which have killed more than 80 people, most recently a suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian on Saturday.
Turkey's interior minister said a Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for that bombing.
Kurdish militants have also carried out bomb attacks.
The Baglar district governor's office in Diyarbakir said the six-day-old curfew in the Kaynartepe neighbourhood was being lifted from 6 a.m.
It had been declared after moves by Kurdistan Workers Party militants to set up barricades, dig ditches and plant explosives there, but the statement said security force operations had achieved their goal.
NATO-member Turkey is on heightened alert after a series of bombings which have killed more than 80 people, most recently a suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian on Saturday.
Turkey's interior minister said a Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for that bombing.
Kurdish militants have also carried out bomb attacks.
The Baglar district governor's office in Diyarbakir said the six-day-old curfew in the Kaynartepe neighbourhood was being lifted from 6 a.m.
It had been declared after moves by Kurdistan Workers Party militants to set up barricades, dig ditches and plant explosives there, but the statement said security force operations had achieved their goal.