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Moscow calls on Ankara to stop violence in Turkey’s southeast — diplomat
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Artiom Geodakyan/TASS
MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russia is calling on Turkey to stop violence against the Kurdish population in the country’s southeast and return to the path of political settlement of the problem, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.
"Despite assertions of the Turkish state’s authorities on the successful completion of the counterterrorism operation, as they called it, in some districts in the country’s southeast, the level of violence there unfortunately is not declining," Zakharova said.
The diplomat noted that many new districts in Turkey’s Kurd-populated provinces were declared "closed security zones", which envisions curfew with relevant restrictions for local residents.
"Both human rights organizations and mass media report on the death of civilians as a result of strikes of the Turkish Air Force, mass human rights violations during military operations," Zakharova said.
"According to a representative of Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party, 150 civilians have died in the long-suffering [town of] Cizre alone [in Sirnak Province] during hostilities, underway since December 2015. Overall, some 500 people have been killed in that province in the period of clashes," she said.
According to some assessments, the number of internal migrants in Turkey, forced to flee the country’s southeast, may reach 1 million people, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Artiom Geodakyan/TASS
MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. Russia is calling on Turkey to stop violence against the Kurdish population in the country’s southeast and return to the path of political settlement of the problem, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.
"Despite assertions of the Turkish state’s authorities on the successful completion of the counterterrorism operation, as they called it, in some districts in the country’s southeast, the level of violence there unfortunately is not declining," Zakharova said.
The diplomat noted that many new districts in Turkey’s Kurd-populated provinces were declared "closed security zones", which envisions curfew with relevant restrictions for local residents.
"Both human rights organizations and mass media report on the death of civilians as a result of strikes of the Turkish Air Force, mass human rights violations during military operations," Zakharova said.
"According to a representative of Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party, 150 civilians have died in the long-suffering [town of] Cizre alone [in Sirnak Province] during hostilities, underway since December 2015. Overall, some 500 people have been killed in that province in the period of clashes," she said.
According to some assessments, the number of internal migrants in Turkey, forced to flee the country’s southeast, may reach 1 million people, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
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http://tass.ru/en/politics/863147
