Curfew in Lice in Diyarbakır

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The Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that a curfew has been declared in four villages and seven hamlets in Lice in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbakır on the ground that an operation will be launched.

As announced by the Governorship on its official website, the curfew, which has been declared by referring to the Law no. 5442 on Provincial Administration, has been in effect as of 6 a.m. today (November 26) in the following villages and hamlets in the district of Lice:

* Villages: Bayırlı, Baharlar, Yaprakköy and Yünlüce; Hamlets: Konuklu, Yeşilburç, Mehmedil, Sağlık, Gönen, Hamzabey and Kumumirza

The 193rd curfew in Diyarbakır

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) Documentation Center has determined that curfew was declared for at least 332 times in 11 provinces and at least 50 districts from August 16, 2015 to October 1, 2018.

CLICK - Curfew Declared for 332 Times in 3 Years

According to the report, at least 1 million 809 thousand people have been affected due to these curfews. The last curfew declared today has become the 192nd curfew in the province.

About Diyarbakır According to the Turkish Statistical İnstitute, in 2014 Diyarbakır was Turkey’s 12th most populated city, with a population of 1,635,048. The population of the city center is 834,854. Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) city center has about 9000 years of recorded history. The Diyarbakır Castle and Gardens was named a Global Heritage site by UNESCO in 2015. Dicle University was opened in 1978. Diyarbakır Governor: Hüseyin Aksoy Municipality co-chairs: Gültan Kışanak, Furat Anlı (Democratic Regions Party). (The elected Municipality Co-Chairs of Diyarbakır were arrested and the former District Governor of Etimesgut, Cumali Atilla, who has been appointed as a trustee to the municipality, took office on November 2, 2016)

(AS/SD)