Since 16 August 2015, there have been 56 officially confirmed, open-ended and round-the-clock curfews in 17 districts of 7 cities (primarily Diyarbakır, Şırnak, Mardin and Hakkâri) that approximately 1,299,061 people reside (2014 population census). During these officially declared curfews, fundamental rights of people such as the Right to Life and Right to Health are violated and 124 civilians lost their lives according to the data of HRFT Documentation Center.

The curfews declared on 11 December 2015 in Sur District of Diyarbakır (again, after 17 hours of break), Dargeçit District of Mardin and on 14 December 2015 Cizre and Silopi Districts of Şırnak and again Nusaybin District of Mardin are still going on and in these 2 weeks 41 civilians were killed (7 of them are children, 1 of them is death in the womb through gunshot and 8 of them are women) and 41 civilians (14 children, 8 women) got wounded.

Moreover, at least 15 of these people were killed while they were within the boundaries of their homes, due to opened fire or being hit by a missile.