The government has imposed curfews in the mainly Kurdish towns of Cizre and Silopi to allow the security forces to battle militants to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, who have moved their fight for Kurdish autonomy to some towns and city neighborhoods
The Anadolu Agency said Thursday 22 rebels were killed in Cizre and one other was killed in Silopi in the past two days.
Media reports say thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to the two towns, near Turkey's border with Iraq.
Hundreds of people have died since July in renewed fighting between the PKK and Turkish troops.
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