İHD says 602 people killed in violence since June
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In a press conference in Ankara on Thursday, the İHD President Öztürk Türkdoğan shared the details of a report prepared by the organization, which says that 150 security officials, 271 civilians and 181 PKK terrorists were killed between June 7 and November 9.
Ever since a suicide bombing in Suruç, Şanlıurfa province, killed 33 activists and injured 100 more on July 20, clashes involving the PKK have grown in number. Two police officers were executed by PKK members on July 22 in retaliation for the Turkish authorities’ perceived failure to prevent the Suruç attack. The violence and PKK-led attacks further escalated when Turkey carried out airstrikes on PKK bases in neighboring northern Iraq.
Besides the violence erupted as clashes between security officials and the PKK in the south-eastern provinces, twin suicide attacks killed 101 people in Ankara on Oct. 10, in the deadliest attack in the history of Turkey believed to be perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Violence has engulfed Diyarbakır’s Silvan district, where six civilians and a solider have been killed during a curfew that has been in place due to ongoing clashes between the PKK and security officials since Nov. 2.
