inhabited mainly by people of the Kurdish southeast of Turkey suffered in the fighting that erupted last year when, after more than two years, broke the peace process between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK ) and the Turkish state.
According to earlier estimates, the government in Ankara in operations conducted by the security forces in the region destroyed It was approx. 6,000 buildings, and the cost to rebuild is approx. 1 billion lira (345 million USD).
” we will rebuild our centers, destroyed by the PKK terror, we rise school buildings and temples, create parks “- Yildirim said in a speech delivered in Diyarbakir, the regional capital. The statement quoted the head of the government daily “Sabah”.
Yildirim announced government investments in seven regional centers, with a particular taking into account the historical district of Sur in Diyarbakir. Located where the remains of an ancient Roman fortress walls were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The district was heavily damaged during the fighting, arousing fears that the scale of the devastation is too large to reconstruction was possible.
at the end of 2012, the authorities in Ankara initiated talks with the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. It was aimed at ending the conflict Kurdish in Turkey, which resulted in more than 30 years died approx. 45 thousand. people, mostly Kurds. Finally, in 2015 the peace process broke down and after more than two years of peace again fighting erupted between the army, police and militants, causing many casualties on both sides.
In late August, the Turkish military has begun in northern Syria, the military operation, having cleaned the frontier of the jihadist Islamic State and Kurdish fighters.
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