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Turk troops kill 2 Kurd rebels in gun
battle
13.10.2005
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DIYARBAKIR,
Turkey, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Turkish troops have
killed two Kurdish rebels in a village in southeast
Turkey-Kurdistan where the guerrillas had come
looking for food, a security official said on
Thursday.
Fighting between Turkey's army and Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) rebels shows no signs of abating in
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. Turkey has
ignored PKK ceasefire offers and the rebels refuse
Ankara's demand that they lay down their arms.
Turkish paramilitary police entered the village of
Oymakli in Siirt province late on Wednesday after a
tip-off that PKK rebels had come to the village
seeking food. Two rebels were killed in the ensuing
gun battle, the official told Reuters.
Elsewhere in eastern Turkey, the Turkish military
pressed on with an operation involving some 8,000 to
10,000 troops backed by helicopters against PKK
rebels in the mountainous province of Tunceli.
Kurdish rebels killed five Turkish soldiers there on
Wednesday when troops tracked down a large group of
guerrillas.
More than 30,000 people have been killed, most of
them Kurds, since the PKK took up arms to fight for
Kurdish self-rule in 1984. Turkey, the EU and the
United States all class the PKK as a terrorist
organisation.
Reuters
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