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Turkey Kurds: Many dead in Cizre violence

Turkey's interior ministry says at least 30 people have died in clashes in the Turkish city of Cizre since a military operation began there last week.
The ministry says most of the dead were Kurdish militants but the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) says 20 civilians were killed in the violence. Dutch journalist, Frederike Geerdink specialises in writing about Kurdish issues but earlier this week was arrested and has since been deported from Turkey, with officials there accusing her of links to the banned PKK. She chats to Newsday about the situation in the area around Cizre...

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