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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 29 (AFP) - 18h28 - Four
Turkish soldiers were injured in southeastern Turkey
Wednesday in a landmine explosion blamed on Kurdish
rebels fighting the government, security sources
here said.
The vehicle carrying the soldiers ran on a mine on a
rural road near the town of Kigi in the province of
Bingol, where five militants from the rebel
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a
clash with the army last week.
Violence in the mainly Kurdish southeast increased
sharply over the past few months after the PKK
called off a five-year unilateral truce in June 2004
on grounds that reforms undertaken by Ankara to
expand Kurdish freedoms were insufficient.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed about
37,000 lives, most of them between 1984 and 1999,
when the PKK waged a bloody campaign for Kurdish
self-rule in the region.
AFP
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