balikci has to stop the shoot.is employer, news broadcaster imc, is the only station in the country that reports regularly on the fighting here in the kurdish-majority southeast of the country. >> we get tear-gassed for doing our job. i am constantly being prevented from reporting on events here. >> shortly afterwards, balikci asks people on the street what they know about the gunfire, and whether there have been civilian casualties. frustration and resignation are increasingly widespread here. >> where are we supposed to go? the fighting moves from one neighborhood to the next, with us in the middle. all we can do is leave, or put up with the curfews. ♪ >> diyarbakir is the unofficial capital of turkey's kurdish heartland. for months now, many parts of the region have returned to conditions resembling civilwar. peace talks between the pkk and the turkish government broke down last summer. the subsequent violence has seen tens of thousands of civilians displaced. kurdish journalists are also coming under fire betwe