The city of Diyarbakir, which is the unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan, is turning into an arena of full-scale battles. If earlier there were separate armed clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurds on the outskirts of the city, now the fighting has also reached the central part of Diyarbakır. According to the Turkish edition NewsThe city has a curfew.
The fiercest battles take place in the Kainartep region. Participants in the Kurdish resistance set barricades at the entrance to the area, but the Turkish security forces attempted to storm. Defensive Kurds were fired from various species. weapons. The city uses armored vehicles of the Turkish army and police, as well as helicopters are used.
Representatives of Kurdish armed formations mined sections of streets along which Turkish armored vehicles tried to pass to the city center at night. Several important urban intersections blocked with stones, fallen trees and building materials. According to the Turkish press, representatives of the PKK (and the Turkish press recently ranked any resisting Kurd among the Kurdistan Workers ’Organization, which Ankara considers terrorist), are firing at security forces from automatic weapons and grenade launchers.
Several quarters of Diyarbakir, in the immediate vicinity of which the NATO air base is located, are in flames.
According to some reports, one policeman was killed in the southern part of the city. Three representatives of the Kurdish resistance were also killed.
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