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10 questions to understand clashes in Turkey’s southeastern Cizre district - POLITICS

10 questions to understand clashes in Turkey’s southeastern Cizre district

Gülden Aydın - ISTANBUL

The Cizre district in the southeastern province of Şırnak has witnessed a series of deadly clashes over the past month, threatening the ongoing Kurdish peace process and becoming a point of bitter dispute between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş.

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