Turkey's government is to make a defense at the European Court of Human Right (ECHR) over curfews in Southeast Anatolia, where security forces have been carrying out operations against ''militants''.
"The answers to these questions will be given through legal ways. These operations will continue until this region is fully cleared of terrorists. The state has its determination and nobody can question this," EU Minister Volkan Bozkır said January 8.
According to Bozkir, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had applied to the European court over the declaration of curfews, calling on the Strasbourg-based court to question Turkey on how the basic needs of the people are being met, Hurriyet reports.
In recent months, Turkish security forces have began an extensive military operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in districts like Sur, Cizre and Silopi and others to dissemble trenches and roadblocks which according to them have been erected by PKK.