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| Troops kill 1 Kurdish rebel, capture 2 others injured in Turkey's southeast The Associated Press Published: September 16, 2007 ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish troops killed one Kurdish rebel in a clash in the country's southeast and captured two others injured on Sunday, local authorities said. The clash occurred near the town of Besiri of the southeastern city of Batman. The two injured rebels were hospitalized in Batman, authorities said. Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party have been fighting government forces in Turkey's southeast since 1984. Fighting has claimed tens of thousands of lives. |
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| Six killed in clashes in s.east Turkey 19 Sep 2007 19:18:19 GMT Source: Reuters TUNCELI, Turkey, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Five Kurdish guerrillas and one Turkish security official were killed in clashes in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, army sources said. The sources said Turkish troops, backed by helicoper gunships, attacked a group of around 30 guerrillas in Sirnak province on the Iraqi border. The operation is continuing and there could be more casualties, the sources said. A Turkish security official was killed in an attack by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants on a gendarme station in the eastern Anatolian province of Bitlis late on Tuesday, security officials said earlier on Wednesday. The militants who attacked the station escaped. The violence came after the Turkish military launched a 10,000-soldier offensive earlier this week against the PKK operating in neighbouring provinces. Army sources said operations against the guerrillas would be expanded. The PKK took up arms against the state in 1984 with the aim of carving out an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey. More than 30,000 people have died in the conflict, which subsided for several years after the capture of the group's leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. However, fighting has flared up again in the last couple of years with large numbers of the militants crossing the border from northern Iraq, where they are holed up in mountain bases. |
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| 4 injured in bomb attack on Turkish train Ankara /24/09/ 12:37 At least four people have been injured when a bomb rocked a Turkish freight train en-route from Elazig to Tatvan, local media said. According to initial reports, the attack was carried out by members of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The train crew members were injured. The bomb, planted on the rails, went off last night around 23:00 hrs. The blast damaged the locomotive and five other coaches. Turkish security forces launched a massive operation to hunt down the terrorists. /end/ |
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| Car bomb kills Turkish soldier, two injured - Summary Posted : Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:13:14 GMT Author : DPA Ankara - One soldier was killed and two injured on Tuesday in a car bomb attack on a security base in eastern Turkey, the Anadolu news agency reported. Anadolu quoted unnamed sources as saying a civilian car carrying bread was driven to the entrance of a gendarme post in the village of Kocakoc where it stopped and a bomb was detonated by remote control. It was not clear what happened to the driver. One gendarme, military police responsible for security in rural areas, was killed instantly. The two wounded were flown to a nearby military hospital. The car bomb came on the same day as reports that five Kurdish rebels had been killed in fighting in the south-eastern province of Sirnak in and around Mount Kato. Anadolu reported that Turkish soldiers first called on the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) rebels to surrender and were then fired upon. Backed by helicopter gunships, Turkish soldiers were fighting around 40 rebels believed to be on or around Mount Kato who were possibly trying to escape to bases in northern Iraq before the onset of winter, Anadolu reported. In the past week 15 rebels have been killed in the operation. Another soldier was also killed in a separate attack also in Sirnak, Anadolu reported. More than 32,000 people, mainly Kurdish civilians, have been killed since the early 1980s when the PKK launched its fight for independence or autonomy for the mainly Kurdish-populated south-east. The PKK is considered a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union. |
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| Two Turkish gendarme killed in mine blast Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:23am BST DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Two Turkish gendarme officers were killed when a mine laid by Kurdish separatists exploded in Bitlis province in eastern Turkey, security sources said on Thursday. The deaths come days after a bomb was detonated outside a police outpost in the province of Tunceli, killing one security official and injuring four others. Four militants from the illegal Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were also killed in a firefight on Tuesday. Turkish troops have stepped up operations against the separatist PKK ahead of the winter, when violence tends to subside in the mountainous region, while Ankara is urging the United States to deal with rebels based in northern Iraq. The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, and the United States and Turkey blame it for more than 30,000 deaths, mostly Kurds, since 1984, when it started an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland. |