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Fresh violence kills four in Turkey's
restive Kurdish regions
15.11.2005
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, Nov 15 (AFP) - 14h42 - One person
was killed Tuesday during clashes between protestors
and security forces in a mainly Kurdish town in
Turkey's southeast, while three soldiers perished in
a land mine explosion blamed on Kurdish rebels,
officials and media reports said.
The unrest in Yuksekova, in Hakkari province,
erupted during a demonstration to condemn a bomb
attack in nearby Semdinli last week that sent
tensions soaring in the region amid allegations that
soldiers were involved in the attack, Anatolia news
agency reported.
The security forces used tear gas and fired in the
air to disperse the crowd after protesters began
pelting them with stones, the agency said.
An armored vehicle was overturned in the unrest.
It was not immediately clear how the victim of the
clashes was killed.
The November 9 bombing of a bookstore in Semdinli
owned by a former Kurdish guerrilla killed one
person, and a second man was shot dead in riots that
followed the attack, which locals have blamed on the
security forces.
The government has pledged to shed light on the
incident.
In the neighboring province of Van, three soldiers
were killed when a land mine planted on a rural road
was detonated by remote control, local officials
said.
Security forces launched an operation in the region
to hunt down the assailants, believed to be members
of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Tuesday's unrest underscores mounting tensions in
Turkey's Kurdish-populated regions, where a period
of relative calm was shattered last year after the
PKK called off a five-year unilateral truce.
The Kurdish conflict has claimed some 37,000 lives
since 1984 when the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist
organization by Turkey, the European Union and the
United States, took up arms for Kurdish self-rule.
AFP
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