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“The Commission will come to its aid”, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker told the European Parliament before he unveiled the proposals.

Video footage showing a body, which was later claimed to be Birlik, the brother-in-law of HDP Şırnak deputy Leyla Birlik, being dragged behind a police vehicle emerged last week.

The attacks took place in the district of Beytüşşebap in Şırnak province, one at 11 p.m. on Thursday night and the other at 5:40 a.m. early on Friday morning, a statement from the General Staff said. This province is close to Turkey’s border with Iraq.

A statement from Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s office said he had accepted their resignations and that neither would be immediately replaced, NTV channel reported.

Alluding to the government’s accusation that the HDP is a front for the PKK – allegations the party vehemently denies – he urged voters to vote AKP “so that peace returns to Turkey“.

Kurdish rebels had stepped up attacks against the Turkish army and police after a suicide bombing in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc killed 31 Kurdish activists.

The HDP said in a statement on Tuesday that Minister for EU Affairs Ali Haydar Konca and Minister of Development Muslum Dogan had resigned.

Tensions in Turkey escalated in late July, when the country launched a military campaign against the PKK in southern Turkey and northern Iraq, after the militants claimed responsibility for the murders of two Turkish police officers.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey officially submitted its list of candidates for a general election on November 1, following inconclusive polls in June. Since that time, the PKK has killed at least 120 Turkish soldiers and police.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday it had treated four members of a family who suffered from breathing difficulties and developed blisters after a mortar hit their home in Marea.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, August 25, 2015.

A number of Mare’a residents said they suffered from asphyxiation after the ISIL terrorists fired shells seemingly containing toxic materials at the town on Saturday, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.

A fresh general election in Turkey will be held on November 1, almost five months after an inconclusive election saw no party win an overall majority.

Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State insurgents in a cluster of villages in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, bent on securing territory they have gained in the course of rolling back the jihadists since last summer.

About giving the Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu the mandate before the 45-day deadline, Erdogan said: “Why would I invite him [Kilicdaroglu] to Bestepe [Presidential Palace], [he] who said “I do not recognize Bestepe”.