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| Three Turkish soldiers killed in roadside attack Sat Aug 4, 2007 1:30PM EDT DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Three Turkish soldiers were killed on Saturday when their vehicle was blown up by a remote controlled explosive device laid by Kurdish rebels on a rural road, security forces said. The deaths follow some of the heaviest fighting since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) started its spring offensive this year, with 11 killed in clashes earlier in the week. More than 200 soldiers and separatist guerrillas have died in the violence so far this year, according to a study carried out by a human rights group. The escalation has prompted calls from the army for a cross-border incursion into northern Iraq to deal with rebels based there. Ankara blames the separatist organization for the deaths of more than 30,000 since they took up arms in 1984 to fight for a Kurdish homeland. The European Union as well as the United States and Turkey consider the PKK a terrorist organization. © Reuters 2007. All rights reserved. |
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| 02.08.2007-TURKEY /TUNCELI Cihan News Agency-National 3 Turkish soldiers killed, 5 injured in clashes with PKK terrorists Three Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were injured in a clash with members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey on Wednesday. The fighting erupted in the province of Tunceli as security forces tracked down PKK terrorists who wounded a Turkish soldier late Tuesday. Five soldiers were also injured in the subsequent clashes in the rural areas of Tunceli province. Tunceli Governor's Office confirmed the death toll on Thursday, saying that explosives and ammunitions were also found along with the terrorists. Backed by helicopters and air forces, Turkish troops continue to track down PKK terrorists in eastern and southeastern Turkey. The clash took place at a time when Ankara is considering a cross-border military operation to crush the PKK bases in neighboring Iraq, which the US and Iraqi governments oppose due to security concerns. |
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| Turkish NCO wounded in mine blast The sergeant received a head wound after being struck by flying rocks from the explosion. Güncelleme: 14:14 TSİ 10 Ağustos 2007 Cuma ANKARA - A Turkish non-commissioned officer was wounded when a land mine planted by members of the terrorist group the PKK terrorists detonated in south eastern Turkey. The blast occurred while squads from the paramilitary Gendarme were patrolling in the Akbal district of the province of Hakkari. According to officials, the mine was detonated by remote control. The sergeant wounded in the blast has been hospitalised and is listed in a satisfactory condition. |
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| Blast Injures 12 Turkish Troops ANKARA, Turkey, Aug 12--Twelve Turkish soldiers were injured early on Sunday morning when minibuses they were traveling in were hit by a roadside bomb believed to have been laid by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the Anadolu news agency reported. The gendarmes, military police responsible for security in rural areas, were traveling from their barracks to a gendarme police station in the south-eastern province of Siirt when their two minibuses were hit by the bomb blast. The injured where evacuated from the scene to a nearby military hospital. Three of the injured were described as being badly hurt. The blast is the la-*test*-('") in a string of roadside bomb attacks carried out by the PKK and comes as the government is under increasing pressure from the public and the military to launch a cross-border operation into northern Iraq to wipe out PKK camps where an estimated 3,500 PKK members are based. This is while a top official of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has warned Turkey it will come off second best if it launches a cross-border offensive against his group. Abd al-Rahman Jadarji, a member of the PKK's 'diplomatic commission' in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI) also said he hoped Iraq's prime minister would renege a pledge made to Ankara to curb the PKK's presence in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region. Jadarji was speaking from a PKK base near Mount Qandil in Iraqi Kurdistan from where the group has launched cross-border attacks against Turkish targets. "The Iraqi government is being put under Turkish pressure, as have several other countries in the region," he said. "However, we hope that Prime Minister al-Maliki will join Iraqi president Jalal Talabani (an ethnic Kurd) and the president of the Kurdistan region Massoud Balzani who are against military solutions for political issues. However Erdogan renewed his threat of military intervention, including cross-border operations, against the PKK , which Ankara accuses of killing some 50 Turkish soldiers in attacks this year. The PKK was founded in the 1970s and is committed to the creation of an independent socialist Kurdish state in a territory which it claims as Kurdistan, an area that comprises parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. |
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| Turkish troop & 2 PKK rebels killed Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:54:59 Sources: Agencies A Clash between Turkish soldiers and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels has left a soldier and two rebels dead in southeastern Turkey. ![]() PKK REBELS Three soldiers were slightly wounded in the fighting, which erupted late Friday during a security sweep against PKK rebels in Hakkari province, read a statement issued by the local governor's office on Saturday. The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist organization by much of the international community, took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey in 1984. The conflict has so far claimed more than 37,000 lives. DT/KB |
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| Eight Kurdish rebels killed in southeastern Turkey 30 August 2007 | 01:31 | FOCUS News Agency ANKARA. Eight rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed Wednesday in fighting with the army in southeastern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported. The clashes took place in a rural area of the Siirt province, near Pervari, where security forces mounted an offensive on the basis of information given by an ex-rebel who turned himself in, it said. A member of the auxiliary militia was injured in the fighting. The outlawed PKK, listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the United States and the European Union, has stepped up its military activity this year. The group has been fighting for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish areas in the east and southeast since 1984 in a bloody conflict that has claimed more than 37,000 lives. |
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| This brings the death toll in the past 3 days of PKK terrorists to 25. |
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| THe death toll is actually 20 not 25, i made a mistake and edited my earlier post. |