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162 civilians killed in months of military clashes with PKK

by Our Foreign Desk

THE Human Rights Foundation of Turkey announced on Saturday that 162 civilians had been killed since August in renewed fighting with Kurdish separatists.

Thirty-two children, 29 women and 24 elderly people were among those killed in cities under 24-hour security curfews.

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