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The governorate has declared that it will be launching operations in 13 villages in Diyarbakır’s four districts. It was announced that from this morning onwards there will be a curfew.

The curfew declared on the ground the operations to be launched in 39 villages in three districts of Diyarbakır has been lifted.

İHD Diyarbakır Branch has declared that communication has been cut with some regions of Lice where curfew and operation are continuing, and that the residents’ condition are unknown. It has demanded entry to those villages.

The General Staff has announced that two soldiers wounded in the PKK attack in Lice district of Diyarbakır province died at the hospital.

Sub-Governorship in Lice district of Diyarbakır has declared curfew as of yesterday in 11 villages until further notice.

Curfew has been declared as of Saturday morning in 16 villages of Lice within the scope of operation launched against the PKK.

Bomb attack has been carried out as military vehicle drove by on Diyarbakır-Lice highway, which left six soldiers dead, one heavily wounded.

Hearing of Lice trial has been held for the first time without the presence of the murdered Diyarbakır Bar President Tahir Elçi. Teacher Cantekin who had witnessed the massacre testified in the hearing today (December 25) and told what the soldiers have been doing.

Curfew has been declared in 14 neighborhoods in Hani district, 12 neighborhoods in Lice district of Diyarbakır province.

One gendarmerie specialist sergeant and a gendarmerie corporal died resulted by mine planted on the road detonated in Lice district of Diyarbakır province.

Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court convicted Ömer Mutlu to 13 years and 9 months of prison for taking down turkish flag located in the garden of 2nd Air Force Base in the southeastern district of Diyarbakır.

Following the arrival of Turkish Army officials to a school intended to teach classes in Kurdish in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, villagers tok the roads which was responded by blocking of all roads by army soldiers.

While some local business owners protested the removal of PKK leader statue and death of protestor by keeping their shutters across the southeastern province of Muş, protestors blocked a road in Varto district, causing vehicle damage.

Following the rising of tensions in the southeastern district of Lice due to the removal of a PKK founder, senior sergeant Uğur Ünal reported killed himself by accident as he was loading his gun.

bianet interviewed HDP Diyarbakır Provincal Organization Co-chair Zübeyde Zümrüt following the death of one person within the rising of tension in Lice over the statue of PKK co-founder Mahsum Korkmaz.

Following a court order to “seize” the statue of PKK co-founder Mahsum Korkmaz, police and army forces launched a crackdown in the southeastern province of Lice, Diyarbakır.

Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz declared that they would resume the construction of high security check-points, saying that “being secure is priceless”.

Soldiers attacked the protests in Lice against the construction of police stations and high security police checkpoints. Two Lice residents, Ramazan Baran (24) and Baki Akdemir (50) were killed. Two people were injured, one of them female. The funerals of the deceased were held yesterday.

Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court sentenced Lice Co-Mayor Rezan Zuğurli to 4 years and 2 months in prison for “not being a member of an organization but committing crime for them”.

A PKK-linked group abducted two senior sergeants in the southeastern district of Lice after a gendarmerie intervention on those protesting against new military headquarters in the area.