Heavy clashes ongoing in Şırnak

Neighborhoods in self-government resistance in Şırnak province are under continuous shelling while YPS and YPS-JIN members continue their resistance.

Neighborhoods in self-government resistance in Şırnak province are under continuous shelling while YPS and YPS-JIN members continue their resistance.

In the city center where genocidal attacks continue, heavy clashes from last night are carrying over into the morning.

Shelling on Yeşilyurt, Gazipaşa, İsmetpaşa, Dicle and Bahçelievler neighborhoods continue while occasional heavy clashes break out when special operations police stationed in state institutions attack the neighborhoods.

Clashes in Yeşilyurt neighborhood where heavy fighting has been going on from the first day of the curfew intensify and continue non-stop. Artillery shelling and tank fire continues and there was one big explosion in the neighborhood.

Heavy clashes continue between YPS/ YPS-JIN members and state forces who are trying to enter the neighborhood which is right next to the 23rd Gendarmerie Border Division Command.

No information was immediately available on any injuries or deaths in the attacks carried out with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s).

Meanwhile, Dicle and Bahçelievler neighborhoods are also under heavy artillery fire. Burning houses and rising smoke detected in different spots in Bahçelievler neighborhood due to the shelling. Two ambulances left for the 23rd Gendarmerie Border Division Command escorted by armored vehicles in the early morning hours.

Military dispatchment into the city also continues. Palace forces carry on their attacks in neighborhoods where there are no ditches or barricades and they continue their positioning in dominant buildings in neighborhoods.