Turkey's military cracks down on Kurds in anti-PKK op

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Turkey's military cracks down on Kurds in anti-PKK op

Harrowing accounts of the alleged massacre of dozens of Kurdish civilians in the Turkish town of Cizre have emerged, as Ankara continues its crackdown on Kurdish fighters in the country's southeast, coupled with shelling Kurds’ positions in Syria and bombing them in Iraq.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has urged Ankara to stop the violence in Turkey’s south-eastern regions and reinvigorate dialogue with the Kurds to find a political solution to the crisis.

Despite Turkish authorities announcing the end of the so-called ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the country’s Kurdish regions, “the level of violence, unfortunately, isn’t decreasing,” Maria Zakharova, ministry spokeswoman, said at a briefing in Moscow.

Russia is confident that a dispute between Turkey and Kurds “can only be solved in the political plain,” she added.

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