Turkey says will block pro-Kurdish deputies from entering curfew city

Thursday, 10 September, 2015 , 12:06

Ankara, Sept 10, 2015 (AFP) — Turkey will not let a delegation of pro-Kurdish MPs enter the city of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, the interior minister said Thursday, despite fears of a humanitarian crisis caused by a military curfew there.

"We will not allow them (the Peoples' Democratic Party - HDP delegation) to go to Cizre," Interior Minister Selami Altinok told reporters in Ankara, adding that the curfew would be continued.

HDP co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas has been leading fellow deputies and dozens of supporters on a march to Cizre to end the curfew and draw attention to the plight of its 120,000 residents.