Asmall crowd of people peer through a police barricade in the district of Sur in Diyarbakır, south-east Turkey, as heavy artillery and machine-gun fire echo through the streets. Most are friends and relatives of an estimated 200 people thought to be trapped on the other side, living among ruined buildings in neighbourhoods that have been under curfew for months.
Turkey’s mainly Kurdish south-east has suffered the worst violence in two decades since a ceasefire between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) fell apart last July, leaving the three-year peace process in tatters and reviving a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people since 1984.
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