Between the dates August 16, 2015 and April 20, 2016 there has been 65 officially confirmed, open-ended and round-the-clock [all daylong] curfews in at least 22 districts of 7 cities in Southeastern Turkey. These cities are as follow; Diyarbakır (35 times), Şırnak (10 times) ve Mardin (11 times), Hakkâri (5 times), Muş (1 time), Elazığ (1 time) and Batman (2 times). It is estimated that, according to the 2014 population census, at least 1 million 642 thousand residents have been affected by these curfews and fundamental rights of these people such as Right to Life and Right to Health are explicitly violated. According to the statement of the Ministry of Health on February 27, 2016, at least 355 thousand residents were forced to leave the cities and districts they lived in.

As it was stated in our previous fact sheets; the data over curfews on periodic Fact Sheets and within the Daily Reports of HRFT Documentation Center are obtained through press review, official websites of relevant public institutions, visual records, statements of witnesses and lawyers, observation reports of political parties and civil organizations and their personal witnessings etc. And whether gets investigated and becomes definite or remains as claims and removed from the annual report if not proved.

According to the data of HRFT Documentation Center, from August 16, 2015 (which is the date of the first declared curfew) until April 20, 2016, at least 338 civilians lost their lives in regions and periods of time that curfews were officially declared. 78 are children, 69 are female and 30 are over the age of 60 within these people…