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Four dead as Turkish forces clash with
Kurd rebels
1.11.2005
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan (Turkey), Nov 1 (Reuters) - Two Turkish
soldiers and a state-sponsored village guard were
killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels in southeast
Turkey overnight, the local governor's office said
on Tuesday.
One militant from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
was also killed in the fighting in Sirnak province
near the border with Iraq when the guerrillas
attacked a hillside army post.
The Sirnak governor's office said in a statement
four soldiers were wounded in the firefight. Troops
backed by helicopters were searching the area for
more rebels.
More than 30,000 people have been killed since the
PKK launched a separatist insurgency in 1984. The
group's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured in
1999 and is imprisoned in an island jail south of
Istanbul.
Reuters
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