ANKARA Jourdan Lewis Womens Jersey , Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Turkey on Thursday announced an end to operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Cizre, in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak.
""Today, operations have successfully ended in Cizre,"" Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in remarks broadcast live on national television. ""Search activities will continue henceforth.""
Dozens of PKK members Byron Jones Womens Jersey , soldiers, police officers and civilians died in clashes in the Kurdish town of Cizre, located near the Syrian and Iraqi borders.
The minister said anti-PKK operations in Sur, in the province of Diyarbakir Maliek Collins Womens Jersey , will also be winding up soon.
""In Sur... it may take one or two weeks, however, there as well, 85-90 percent (of the operation) has been finalized Jaylon Smith Womens Jersey ,"" Ala said.
Turkey's southeast has seen the worst violence in two decades since a 2013 cease-fire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July 2015, reviving a conflict that had killed 40,000 people since 1984.
The truce fell apart in the wake of a suicide bomb attack in the border town of Suruc in Sanliurfa Province, which killed 34 pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists.
More than 260 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed since July 2015 in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq.
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GENEVA, March 30 (Xinhua) -- High-level UN officials Wednesday called for countries to act with solidarity by pledging new and additional pathways for the admission of Syrian refugees.
Speaking at the opening of a high-level meeting on global responsibility sharing for Syrian refugees, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that an exponential increase in global solidarity is needed for the biggest refugee and displacement crisis of our time.
The UN estimates that at least 10 percent of Syrian refugees, or 480 Taco Charlton Womens Jersey ,000 people, need resettlement or another form of admission into a third country.
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""States have pledged more than 178,000 places so far. I call on you to expand on these commitments and I urge other countries to join,"" Ban said.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that the nearly five million Syrian refugees in the region are facing increasing obstacles to find safety after the five-year conflict.
""We are here today to appeal for additional and more diverse legal avenues for admission of Syrian refugees into different countries and communities in the coming three years,"" said the High Commissioner.
Grandi added that offering legal alternative avenues for the