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A primary school teacher from Cizre: “There is no armory here, civilians are killed. Youngsters in their twenties put up barricades to protect themselves. A nation totally antagonist is born.”

Lawyers across Turkey took the road for Cizre. Diyarbakır Bar President Elçi, “Our mission is to see unlawfulness on site and to stick with Cizre people.”

Minister of the Interior explained 69 party headquarters have been attacked for three days and they won't allow HDP delegation enter Cizre district.

Hit the road to go Cizre district, HDP deputies had been blockaded by police. Deputies staged sit in, now they return to İdil district.

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, ministers and about 40 deputies of HDP marched towards Cizre district. Although stopped twice on the road, HDP deputies continue to walk.

Hit the road for Cizre, Women’s Freedom Assembly is waiting in Nusaybin: “We call crossroad between Nusaybin and Cizre now ‘gate’. They open it for an hour every day but they didn’t open it today.”

HDP delegation explained 7 people died in two days and some quarters had neither electricity nor water and the hospital had only one doctor, in Cizre.

Last night, an eight-year-old child in Cizre district of Şırnak province was hit in the eye by plastic bullet fired by the police.

Following an ECHR ruling that their rights were violated, a retrial of 9 defendants who were jailed for attending a protest in the southeastern district of Cizre ended with an acquittal.

Peace Assembly of Turkey urged Peoples’ Democratic Party and Justice and Development Party government to create a joint resolution for the rising of tensions in the southeastern district of Cizre.

Nihat Kazanhan, a 12 year old boy from Şırnak’s Cizre district, died after being shot with a bullet in the head.

The police in Şırnak raided buildings of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party and private homes. 55 people were taken into police custody, including party executives. Co-Chair Demirtaş said the operations were aimed at the elimination of the party.