Violence between Turks and Kurds claims lives

diyarbakir - Fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish militants have again claimed lives on both sides. The Turkish military said on Wednesday that the violence three soldiers and twenty PKK fighters has killed in the southeast of the country.

The profound conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurds flared again last year after a truce of two and a half years. The latest victims died by gunfire in Cizre, near the border with Syria, and in the provincial capital Diyarbakir.

Not only human lives are devastated by the conflict. The historic district of Sur in Diyarbakir, surrounded by Roman walls, has big damage by the fighting of the past few months. Residents of a large portion of the district is already almost two months may not show on the street.