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One killed in clash in eastern Turkey
15.6.2005
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 15 (AFP) - 10h48 - A
suspected Kurdish rebel was killed in a clash with
security forces late Tuesday near the eastern
Turkish town of Mazgirt, provincial security
officials said Wednesday.
The firefight occurred during a routine security
sweep in the Kurdish populated area in Tunceli
province, the sources said, adding that a military
operation was continuing to seek out other suspected
militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The PKK waged a bloody 15-year campaign for Kurdish
self-rule in southeastern Turkey in a conflict that
claimed nearly 37,000 lives between 1984 and 1999.
The arrest that year in Nairobi of PKK leader
Abdullah Ocalan and his subsequent treason trial and
life sentence ended the conflict, but tensions
escalated after the PKK last year called off a
unilateral truce.
Turkish officials have warned that militants of the
PKK, classified as a terrorist organisation by the
United States and the European Union, have begun to
return to Turkey in large numbers from northern
Iraq, where many of them fled after the 1999 truce.
The rise in violence in the area has increased
sharply over the past three months.
AFP
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