Turkey-PKK conflict 'escalating fast'

The number of policemen and soldiers who have been killed in Turkey since a ceasefire with Kurdish militant group the PKK broke down in July, has now risen to more than 120.

The Turkish military has been pounding PKK positions for the last few weeks, and recently imposed a curfew on the town of Cizre, after violence broke out.

There are fears the country is returning to the armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s that killed 40,000 people.

Mark Lowen reports.

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