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Two killed in landmine explosion in Turkey
15.6.2005
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ANKARA, June 14 (AFP) - 18h57 - Two Turkish
civil servants were killed Tuesday when their
pick-up truck hit a rebel-laid landmine in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast, the Anatolia
news agency reported.
A security operation was launched after the
explosion in the province of Sirnak, which borders
Iraq and Syria, it said.
The mine is believed to have been planted by members
of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which
waged a bloody campaign for self-rule in the
southeast from 1984 to 1999.
The group declared a unilateral ceasefire in 1999
after its leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured, and
most of the rebels withdrew into neighbouring
northern Iraq.
But they called off the truce last year on the
grounds that reforms undertaken by the government to
expand Kurdish freedoms were insufficient.
AFP
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