Turkish Counter-attack Leaves 17 Dead

11 PKK terrorists killed in Tunceli
Eleven operatives of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a clash with security forces in eastern Turkey, the Governor's Office said yesterday.

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The clash occurred in the province of Tunceli. Turkish security forces have been hunting PKK terrorists around Tunceli since a roadside bomb attack targeted a military convoy in the area on Wednesday. The bomb went off after the convoy had passed by, and no one was harmed.

The conflict between the autonomy-seeking PKK and the government has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people since the PKK took up arms in 1984. The Turkish military launched a ground assault against PKK camps inside Iraq in February, and there have been sporadic clashes along the border and inside Turkey since then.

Meanwhile a German court has jailed a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), while a Belgian prosecutor has ordered the arrest of three PKK members.A high state court in the German city of Frankfurt sentenced a PKK member, Muzaffer A., 52, to a prison term of three-and-a-half years on charges related to terrorist activities, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. The court's decision is based on an 11-month trial during which it was found that the convict was involved in illegal activities on behalf of the PKK in southern Germany between July 2005 and August 2006. In Belgium, another EU member state which has declared the PKK a terrorist organization, a federal prosecutor arrested three individuals who were detained in an operation against the PKK that was launched earlier this month in Liege and Verviers.

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İşte Genelkurmay Başkanlığı'ndan yapılan açıklama:

"Şırnak ili Bestler-Dereler bölgesinde, PKK/KONGRA-GEL terör örgütüne karşı sürdürülen operasyonda, 16 Nisan 2008 günü bir grup terörist ile temas sağlanmıştır. Çıkan silahlı çatışmada bir güvenlik görevlisi şehit olmuş, ikisi ağır olmak üzere yedi güvenlik görevlisi yaralanmıştır. Bölgede operasyonlara devam edilmektedir.

Aynı gün bölgede yapılan arama ve tarama faaliyetinde; 1,5 kg. TNT kullanılarak hazırlanmış 2 adet patlayıcı madde düzeneği ile 108 kg. muhtelif gıda maddesi ele geçirilmiştir.

Kamuoyuna saygı ile duyurulur"

We lost a solider in Sirnak and two others are heavily injured. In the same day1.5 kilos of TNT and a 108kg of explosives were caught.

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One soldier, five PKK separatists killed in Turkey

Five outlawed PKK separatists and one Turkish soldier were killed in clashes that took place on Sunday in Kars, an eastern province of Turkey. Over 5,000 soldiers have been operating in the souteast of the country, Dogan News Agency reported on Monday. (UPDATED)

One soldier, five PKK separatists killed in Turkey

Another Turkish soldier was wounded during the clashes in Kars.

Over 5,000 Turkish soldiers have been carrying out both ground and aerial operations aiming at the PKK in the mountainous area of Sirnak , a southeastern province of the country, Dogan News Agency reported on Monday.

Turkey and most of the international community, including the EU and the U.S., consider the PKK a terrorist organization. Turkey launched a major eight-day ground incursion against the PKK in February, sending thousands of troops into Iraq.

Photo: DHA

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/...gid=231&sz=5762

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Death toll rises to 4 in landmine explosions in Turkey

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded on Tuesday in the explosion of a landmine planted by outlawed PKK separatists in Semdinli town of Hakkari, a southeastern province of Turkey, the Dogan News Agency reported.

Death toll rises to 4 in landmine explosions in Turkey

In the explosion on Monday in a mountainous area near the town of Cukurca in the same province, one Turkish soldier had been killed two had been wounded.

Two Turkish soldiers and a village guard were wounded in a separate blast on Tuesday in Sirnak, another southeastern province of Turkey, the Anatolian Agency reported.

The death toll in the landmine explosions rose to four on Tuesday.

The outlawed PKK frequently uses remote-control landmines to attack Turkey's security forces.

Turkey and most of the international community, including the EU and the U.S., consider the PKK a terrorist organization.

Photo: DHA

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/...id=231&sz=61993

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Spring season brings uptick in fighting between Turkish military and Kurdish rebels

The Associated Press
Published: April 28, 2008

ISTANBUL, Turkey: Ten Turkish soldiers have died in clashes with Kurdish rebels since April 20, signaling a seasonal upswing in fighting when winter snows melt and combatants are able to move around rugged terrain more freely.

The renewed violence comes two months after Turkey staged a ground offensive against guerrillas based in Iraq with the help of U.S. intelligence but without the active support of Iraqi Kurds. It also coincides with Turkish air and artillery strikes on cross-border targets, though experts say such tactics have limited impact on an elusive foe in a vast region.

The persistence of the rebel threat raises questions about whether Turkey might deem it necessary to stage another ground operation in Iraq against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The military says it is entitled to do so, but U.S.-led calls for restraint and the prospect of a costly, inconclusive campaign could temper any Turkish zeal for another incursion.

"It's something that they have to be considering," said Aliza Marcus, author of "Blood and Belief: the PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence."

Abdulkadir Onay, a Turkish lieutenant colonel and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, compared Turkish military action in Iraq to what he described as "required" Israeli operations in Lebanon and Colombia's recent air strike on a group of leftist rebels who were hiding just across the border in Ecuador.

"Just as the U.S. military has targeted al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, Turkey will likely continue to tackle the PKK presence in neighboring Iraq," Onay wrote in an analysis this month.

Ahmet Banas, a PKK spokesman in northern Iraq, said rebels "have enough forces" to defend themselves if Turkey attacks in Iraq again. The PKK is estimated to have a total of 5,000 fighters, down by half from its peak in the early 1990s.

Some recent fighting with the rebel group occurred near Mt. Cudi in Sirnak province and similar mountain routes traditionally used by rebels to infiltrate Turkey from Iraq. But Turkish media said two soldiers were killed in Bingol province Sunday, hundreds of kilometers (miles) from Iraq.

Rebel units inside Turkey are believed to have considerable independence from their masters in northern Iraq, getting weapons and other supplies from local smugglers and carrying out hit-and-run attacks.

The PKK detonated 20 mines and roadside bombs from the beginning of this year until April 25, according to the Turkish General Staff. Authorities defused another 95 explosive devices. The military has reported the combat deaths of 10 soldiers and one member of a paramilitary force comprising village residents since April 20.

Rebels say they seek autonomy in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey, citing a history of discrimination and human rights abuses by the state. Turkey says the PKK is a terrorist group — a view shared by Europe and the United States — and says the state is committed to social and economic reforms to help the Kurds. Progress, however, is halting.

Turkey's ruling party won more Kurdish votes in elections last year than a Kurdish party seen as the political wing of the PKK, suggesting many Kurds are tired of militancy. But the PKK's profile rose when Turkey sent troops into northern Iraq for eight days in February despite U.S. concerns about the threat to stability in the area controlled by Iraqi Kurds.

The Turkish military said it pummeled rebels in Iraq's Zap region, though commanders said it was difficult to keep troops exposed for long in the harsh winter. The Feb. 29 troop withdrawal came after U.S. President George W. Bush told Turkish leaders to end the offensive as soon as possible; Turkey's military denied it pulled out under U.S. pressure.

Iraqi Kurds have refrained from tough action against their Turkish Kurd brethren, though Turkish commanders want them to arrest rebels and cut supply lines.

"In the best circumstances, it's difficult for (the Turks) to fight in northern Iraq, especially without the Iraqi Kurds as an active partner," said Marcus, the author. She also questioned the value of U.S. military intelligence in parts of northern Iraq, where few American soldiers are stationed and the distances are huge.

Citing Turkish military eavesdropping on rebel communications, Sedat Laciner of the International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara said the PKK endured an especially tough winter and "they lost a lot of militants."

But he said the Turkish military had made some "wrong choices," including the frequent use of conscripts and other soldiers without counterinsurgency training, as well as air raids. "You cannot destroy terrorists by bombing large areas," he said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/28/...urkey-Kurds.php

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Landmine kills one Turkish soldier in eastern Turkey

One Turkish soldier was killed on Tuesday in landmine explosion in an eastern province of Turkey, the Anatolian Agency reported.

Landmine kills one Turkish soldier in eastern Turkey

One Turkish soldier was killed on Tuesday in the explosion of a landmine planted by the outlawed PKK separatists in the eastern Igdir province of Turkey, the Anatolian Agency reported.

The PKK frequently uses remote-control landmines to attack Turkey's security forces.

Turkey and most of the international community, including the EU and the U.S., consider the PKK a terrorist organization.

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/...id=231&sz=34681

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Silopi'de 8 terörist teslim oldu

Şırnak'ın Silopi ilçesinde terör örgütü PKK mensubu 8 kişi teslim oldu.

Terör örgütü PKK'dan kaçan 8 terörist, Silopi ilçesi yakınlarındaki Habur Sınır Kapısı'nda güvenlik güçlerine teslim oldu.

Teslim olan teröristler arasında 5 yaşında çocukları olan bir çiftin de bulunduğu bildirildi. Teröristlerin sorguları devam ediyor.

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In sirnak, 8 terrorits have surrendered to the heroic security forces. Among them a couple had a 5 year old child.

Turkey 'kills 150 Kurdish rebels'

Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq this week left more than 150 Kurdish rebels dead, the Turkish army says.

"According to initial estimates, this operation allowed us to neutralise more than 150 terrorists," the army said in a statement on its website.

A PKK spokesman said that only six rebels were killed and they were from a different faction.

Turkey has staged several cross-border raids into northern Iraq over the past few months in pursuit of the rebels.

The strikes, which began on Thursday and ended on Friday, were carried out against PKK guerrillas based in the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, the Turkish army says.

All targeted posts in Qandil area were destroyed during the operation, according to the Turkish army's statement.

But a PKK spokesman, Ahmed Danees, told the Reuters news agency only six rebels died and they were from a faction fighting against Iran.

The Turkish parliament authorised cross-border operations against the PKK late last year.

It has accused Iraq of failing to stop the PKK - who are fighting for greater autonomy in south-eastern Turkey - from using its northern areas as a safe haven.

In February, Ankara launched a week-long ground offensive in northern Iraq which, it said, targeted bases used by up to 3,000 Kurdish rebels as a spring-board for attacks across the border.

The PKK is branded a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and EU.

More than 30,000 people have been killed since it began its armed campaign in 1984.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7382150.stm
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Şırnak'ta 2 terörist ölü ele geçirildi
Genelkurmay açıkladı...

05.05.2008 17:40
Türkiye'de eylem yapmak üzere Şırnak
Uludere'den sınırı geçmeye çalışan 2 terörist, Türkiye-Irak sınırında
görevli birlikler tarafından dün etkisiz hale getirildi.

Genelkurmay Başkanlığının internet sitesinde yer alan terörle mücadeleye
ilişkin duyuruya göre, teröristlerle birlikte 2 Kalaşnikof piyade
tüfeği, bu tüfeklere ait 8 şarjör ve 240 mermi ile 2 el dürbünü ve
muhtelif yaşam malzemesi ele geçirildi.

Şırnak'ın dağlık arazi kesiminde güvenlik güçlerince yapılan arama ve
tarama faaliyetinde de terör örgütü mensuplarına ait 7 Kalaşnikof piyade
tüfeği ve 113 şarjör bulundu.

Siirt'in Eruh ilçesi dağlık arazi kesiminde ise terör örgütü
mensuplarına ait muhtelif gıda maddesi ve yaşam malzemesi ele geçirildi.

2 terrorists killed in sirnak.

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Turkish military says it killed 20 PKK fighters

Fri May 9, 2008 6:54pm EDT

(Adds fresh attack, changes dateline, previous Diyarbakir)

TUNCELI, Turkey, May 9 (Reuters) - Turkish military sources said at least 20 Kurdish separatists and two Turkish soldiers were killed after Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas attacked a military base in southeast Turkey late on Friday.

Turkish warplanes bombed rural areas along Turkey's border with Iraq after some 50 PKK members from northern Iraq attacked a gendarme station near the border, killing two soldiers.

The bombings killed 20 militants, the military sources said. No further details were available.

Earlier in the day three people were killed and a dozen injured in a series of explosions in the region blamed on the Kurdish separatist guerrillas.

The three landmine blasts, set off by remote control, were in the southeastern provinces of Siirt and Batman and in eastern Bingol province, said security sources, who declined to be named.

The violence comes amid an ongoing military operation, backed by attack helicopters, tanks and artillery against separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas in the restive and mountainous parts of southeast Turkey.

Amid widespread public anger over PKK attacks, Turkey has sent tens of thousands of troops to the border region. Over the week dozens of Turkish F-16 warplanes have also gone on bombing raids against suspected PKK positions deep inside neighbouring northern Iraq.

Turkey blames the PKK for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, since the group began its armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey in 1984.

President Abdullah Gul said on Friday the military's la-*test*-('") air strikes against the rebels in northern Iraq were among the most significant blows yet against the separatist movement.

"I can say we are in an important period in terms of Iraq and the struggle with the PKK," Gul told reporters during a Europe Day reception in Ankara.

Turkey says several thousand PKK rebels use a remote, mountainous part of northern Iraq as a base from which to stage attacks on targets inside Turkey. Iraqi authorities say they are keen to cooperate with NATO member Turkey but complain that they have no control over the isolated part of the oil-rich country.

The tensions over the PKK, considered a terrorist organisation by the United States, Turkey and the European Union, in northern Iraq has helped boost global oil prices.

The Turkish military said on Saturday it had killed more than 150 PKK members in air strikes in May. The rebel group denied this.

Thousands of Turkish troops conducted an eight-day large-scale incursion into Iraq in February in which the military said it killed 240 guerrillas and lost 27 of its own men.

SERIES OF BLASTS

The PKK's landmine attacks caused the first civilian casualties suffered within Turkey for months, reminiscent of a series of attacks that led up to the military's first threats last autumn of a cross-border operation into Iraq.

One of those killed in the explosion was a village teacher.

"Our assessment is that the explosion, which targeted a minibus carrying villagers, was remotely detonated. We have sent a helicopter to the site," Batman governor Recep Kizilcik told Reuters.

He said members of the state "village guard" militia were travelling in the minibus.

The PKK, which still attracts strong support in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey due to economic hardship and perceptions of political repression, frequently plants mines targeting security forces.

In a separate attack, a military officer and a member of a village guard militia were injured in a landmine blast in Siirt province. In another attack, an officer and two other soldiers were injured while on patrol when a landmine planted by PKK exploded under their vehicle in Bingol province, security sources said. (Additional reporting by Zerin Elci in Ankara and Daren Butler in Istanbul; writing by Paul de Bendern and Thomas Grove; Editing by Charles Dick)

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSL09552805

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Military deals a heavy blow to PKK
Warplanes and artillery units destroyed key positions of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq --- including a communications center -- in a second day of raids on PKK positions, the Turkish military said yesterday.

Turkish troops "intensely and effectively" struck PKK targets in the Avasin-Basyan area in northern Iraq late on Saturday, but were careful to avoid civilians or local Iraqi Kurdish forces, the General Staff said, without giving any casualty figures.

"All targets have been hit with accuracy, and terrorists in the targeted facilities have been rendered ineffective," the General Staff said in a statement released on its Web site. In a separate statement a few hours later, the military said it also struck a "media and propaganda" center of the terrorist organization. It provided no other details.

Yesterday Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed the continuation of Turkey's military activity as long as terrorist threat doesn't entirely disappear. "From time to time, there are those who give us the advice of 'stopping operations.' As long as the terrorist [group] does not abandon violence and terrorists don't lay down their arms, security forces will continue intervening in incidents in line with the intelligence it gets. One cannot remain insensitive to what is being experienced," Erdoğan was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency, while speaking to reporters in his hometown, the Black Sea city of Rize.

The prime minister also urged PKK members to make use of Article 221 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK), called the "active repentance" law. The article stipulates the release of terrorist organization members who turn themselves in without any punishment, as long as they have not been involved in any armed clashes with security forces or any other terrorist attacks against Turkey.

"The Turkish Armed Forces [TSK] will continue its struggle against terrorism with increasing power and determination," the General Staff said. "Any heinous act against the Turkish Republic will be responded to immediately and heavily."

The terrorist organization had attacked a Turkish military station in Hakkari province late on Friday, prompting the military to strike back that night. Six soldiers and 19 PKK members were killed in the violence, the military said. The military said on Saturday that the PKK's attack was a move to offset what it described as panic and demoralization in the group after the "serious blow" it suffered in the extensive Turkish air raid on its positions in northern Iraq at the beginning of the month.

The military also added that following the strike on May 1-2, which targeted the Kandil Mountains, a major PKK stronghold along the Iraqi-Iranian border, resulted in the killing of more than 150 PKK members; many of the some 200 members believed to remain based there had abandoned their positions and fled deeper into northern Iraq, dispersing in settlements in the region, which is run by Iraqi Kurds.

Senior PKK commander Cemil Bayık fled into a neighboring country together with a large group of PKK members, engaging in clashes with local security forces, the General Staff said. It did not name the country, but it appears to be Iran, which is fighting its own Kurdish separatist group Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), a PKK affiliate that also takes refuge in the Kandil Mountains.

Many of Bayık's bodyguards were killed, but his fate remains unknown, the statement said. The information about Bayık's group was passed to Turkey by Iran as part of a deal involving intelligence-sharing that the two countries reached in April, the Radikal newspaper reported on Sunday.

The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Turkey, and the Turkish military continues to strike PKK targets in northern Iraq. The weekend operation was the ninth confirmed aerial strike on the PKK in northern Iraq since Dec. 16, when the first cross-border operation on the terrorist group since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was carried out. The operations have the backing of the US, which has been providing intelligence and airspace clearance for Turkish fighter jets.

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HAKKARİ’nin Şemdinli İlçesi’ne bağlı Aktütün Köyü’ndeki Jandarma Karakoluna saldırarak 6 askeri şehit eden PKK’lı teröristle ağır darbe indirildi.

Saldırının ardından 19 teröristin etkisiz hale getirildiği operasyonlarda, 11 PKK'lı daha ölürken, 20'den fazlasının da yaralandı. Teröristlerin dinlenen telsiz konuşmalarında, ölen PKK'lıların cesetlerini, Türkiye sınırına yakın Herki Deresi’ne attığı belirlendi.

Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri’nin Kandil'deki örgüt kampına hava operasyonunda ağır darbe yedikten sonra Hakkari’nin Şemdinli İlçesi’ne bağlı Aktütün Köyü’ndeki Jandarma Karakol Komutanlığı’na 9 Mayıs gecesi saldıran bölücü teröristlere, bir darbe daha vuruldu. Zap, Çemço ve Avaşin kamplarında toplanıp Basyan Vadisi'ni kullanarak Aktütün Jandarma Karakolu yakınlarına gelerek uçaksavar, roketatar ve uzun namlulu silahlarla saldıran yaklaşık 200 kişilik teröriste anında verilen karşılıkla 19 terörist öldürülürken, 6 Mehmetçik şehit olmuştu.

Bölücü teröristlerin saat 18.30’da düzenlediği saldırının ardından hava destekli başlatılan ve sabahın erken saatlerine kadar süren operasyonlarda, sık sık sıcak temaslar sağlandı. Sikorsky helikopterlerin bölgeye indirdiği özel komando ve jandarma özel hareket timleri, kobra ve süper kobra helikopterlerin kaçış güzergahlarını kapattığı teröristlerden 11'i daha öldürürken, 20’den fazla terörist de yaraladı.

CESETLERİ HERKİ DERESİNE ATTILAR

Mehmetçiğin bölgedeki kapsamlı operasyonun ardından PKK’lı teröristlerin aldığı darbenin boyutları ise dinlenen telsizler konuşmalarıyla ortaya çıkıyor. Teröristler kendi aralarında yaptıkları telsiz konuşmalarında 30’dan fazla arkadaşlarının öldüğünü ve 20’den fazla da yaralının olduğunu; ölen teröristlere ait cesetlerin de bir kısmının Aktütün Köyü’ne yakın olan Kuzey Irak sınırlarındaki Herki Deresi’ne atıldığı belirtildi.

YİYECEK SIKINTISI ÇEKİYORLAR

Üst düzey bir askeri yetkili, Aktütün Jandarma Karakolu’na saldıran terörist grubun tamamen imha edilmesi için bölgedeki operasyonların hız kesmeden sürdürüldüğünü söyledi. Sayıları 200 civarında olduğu tahmin edilen teröristleri tüm geçiş güzergahlarının kapatılması yüzünden yine telsizlerden yapılan anoslarla teröristlerin sık sık diğer gruplardan acil sağlık ve yiyecek talabinde bulundukları belirlendi.

11 terrorists killed, and an estimated 20 have been an injured by the turkish army.

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Van'ın Başkale ilçesinde güvenlik güçlerinin düzenlediği operasyonda, aralarında bölge sorumlularının da bulunduğu 6 terörist etkisiz hale getirildi. Güvenlik güçleri, ilçenin İran sınırına yakın bölgedeki Güvendik köyünde yaşayan bir vatandaşı terör örgütü PKK üyelerinin kaçıracağı bilgisine ulaştı.

Köye gelen teröristler, Aptulmutalip Özdemir'i kaçırarak İran sınır bölgesinde Abazer mevkisindeki bir mağaraya götürdü.

Teröristleri takip eden güvenlik güçleri, mağaraya operasyon düzenlendi. Operasyonda, 6 terörist etkisiz hale getirildi, yaralanan 3 terörist kaçtı.

Kaçırılan Aptulmutalip Özdemir'in ise mağara çevresindeki teröristlerin gözcüleri tarafından öldürüldüğü öğrenildi.

Yetkililer, etkisiz hale getirilen teröristler arasında örgütün bölge sorumlularının bulunduğu öğrenildi.Güvenlik güçleri, kaçan teröristlerin yakalanması amacıyla operasyonların sürdürüldüğünü bildirdiler.

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6 terrorists killed in Van and 3 injured.