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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Turkey’s Interior Ministry called 22 governors from the country’s southeastern and eastern regions to attend a security meeting in Ankara on Sunday.The meeting was chaired by Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and was convened to discuss counter-terrorism operations, and security issues related to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and other terrorist organizations, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.The closed-door meeting was also attended by commander of the gendarmerie, the chief of police, the undersecretary of public order and security, and high level officials involved in civil registration, migration, and security.The meeting comes amid a flare up of violence between Turkish security forces and the PKK in the predominantly Kurdish southeast.The number of casualties rose in August for the first time since they peaked in February, according to data compiled by the International Crisis Group.Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday that Turkish security forces killed three PKK members near the Iraqi border; the three were reportedly preparing to attack a military base.Hakkari province declared a curfew in its Yuksekova district on Sunday during ongoing military operations against the PKK in the area. A statement from the governor said that all entry and exit from villages under the curfew was prohibited until further notice.Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım visited Ağri province earlier this week after 10 people were killed in an alleged PKK attack. He later told journalists that the PKK was trying to “turn Turkey into Syria or Iraq.”He urged the people of Turks to unite under the Turkish flag.“Look at the situation of Syrians and Iraqis in the absence of a flag. 10 million people were displaced. It was all tears and pain. They also want to do this to Turkey. They are feeding terror in order to divide Turkey. This is a dirty game. Don’t be deceived. Our tomorrow will be better than today. We will share our pain and joy. We will scratch the eyes of the ones who set eyes on our land,” Yıldırım said, according to Hurriyet Daily News.During his visit to Ağri, Yıldırım challenged the PKK to “Bring on whatever power you have.”“We will kick you out of this soil,” he vowed, saying that the PKK harm Kurds the most. “There is no Turk, no Kurd, there is one nation,” he said.