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Turkey: More Kurdish cities placed under curfew
Ankara steps up its crackdown on Kurds
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TURKEY placed two more mainly Kurdish cities under military siege yesterday in its ongoing crackdown on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) guerillas.

In Yuksekova, which is part of Hakkari province, near Iran and Iraq, a curfew came into effect at 8pm local time.

The provincial governor announced that entering or leaving the town of some 70,000 residents would also be banned.

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