Turkey rolls back curfew in mainly Kurdish town
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Turkey is rolling back a 24-hour curfew imposed on the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre nearly three weeks after declaring the successful conclusion of military operations there.
The curfew was lifted at 5 a.m. on Wednesday allowing residents to return to their conflict-stricken neighborhoods for the first time since December 14. But it will remain in effect at night between 7:30 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The town near the borders of Syria and Iraq, is one of a handful of mainly Kurdish districts where security forces conducted operations against militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On Feb. 11, security forces in Cizre declared victory over the Kurdish rebels, who had raised barricades, dug trenches and planted explosives to protect the area in which they aspired for self-rule.