Turkey Blocks Opposition March to Curfew-hit City

Turkish security forces Thursday stopped a group of pro-Kurdish politicians from marching to Cizre — a city of 120,000 close to the borders with Syria and Iraq — where they say a week-long curfew has triggered a humanitarian crisis and killed 21 civilians.   Turkish Interior Minister Selami Altinok told reporters in Ankara that members of parliament from the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, or HDP, will not be allowed in Cizre, where a curfew is in effect. The...

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