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Amberin Zaman

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Turkish special forces shoot with machine gun in Sirnak on December 22, 2015 during security operations against Kurdish rebels in the southeastern Turkey cities of Cizre and Silopi.
The Turkish army on December 21 engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militants as the military pressed on with one of its biggest recent domestic operations and controversial curfew orders were expanded to a new area in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. The number of Kurdish rebels killed in a massive Turkish military offensiv — Turkish special forces soldiers shoot machine guns during security operations against Kurdish rebels in the southeastern Turkish cities of Cizre and Silopi, Sirnak, Turkey, Dec. 22, 2015. — BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

A demonstrator stands in front of a word reads "existence" written on a wall as she waits for the start of a march in solidarity with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)'s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in Diyarbakir, Turkey, August 1, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTX1MOB6

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