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Curfew has been declared in 18 villages and neighbourhoods in Silvan district of Diyarbakır province as of 11 a.m. this morning.

Prosecution has been brought against HDP Co-Chair, Figen Yüksekdağ over “insulting public officer”.

According to statement by Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, six people have been killed by security forces as of November 3 in three neighborhoods where curfew has been imposed in Turkey's southeastern Silvan district.

HDP deputy from İzmir Kürkçü who was exposed to police attack as going to neighborhoods under blockade in Silvan has expressed that people put up a legitimate fight to govern themselves and be exposed to attack in return.

HDP former deputy Edip Berk has expressed that in the neighborhoods where curfew declared wounded people cannot be moved out of there, there is food shortage, and entrance to neighborhoods have been blocked for “security of life”.

A lieutenant has died, a specialist sergeant wounded in Turkey's southeastern Silvan district of Diyarbakır province whose three neighborhoods have been imposed curfew for nine days.

HDP has released a statement as to incidents in Silvan on where curfew has been imposed for nine days, there are information claiming there are dead and wounded.

DİHA reporter Serhat Yüce who was put a gun against his head by police, battered and detained Ögür Gün TV reporter Murat Demir talked to bianet.

After the military operations were launched yesterday, a curfew has been declared in Silvan district of Diyarbakır province, today.

HDP Deputy Aydoğan said an operation was launched last night after the declaration of self-governance in Silvan/Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey.

Attacks against Kurdish citizens and members of the Peace and Democracy Party are still continuing after 13 soldiers died in an armed conflict in Silvan one week ago. In Erzurum, 500 people assaulted 200 Kurdish workers. In Zeytinburnu, BDP members were attacked.