DIYARBAKIR, Turkey

The curfew in the Silvan district of the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir due to operations against the terrorist organization PKK ended on Monday evening, said the Governorship.

The Governorship of Diyarbakir province stated that the curfew which began on Friday Oct. 2, in the morning, has been lifted on Oct. 5, Monday at 5.30 p.m (1430GMT).

Renewed violence in Turkey has come in the wake of the July 20 Suruc massacre, blamed on Daesh. The subsequent PKK-linked murder of two Turkish police officers at their home sparked a new wave of conflict.

The fighting has seen the collapse of a fragile cease-fire which began early 2013 and was dubbed the “solution process”.

Founded in the late 1978, the PKK is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the U.S.