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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Aug 4 (AFP) - 15h38 -
Turkish security forces have killed two armed rebels
of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in
ongoing security operations in the east and
southeast of the country, local officials and the
Anatolia news agency said Thursday.
One man was killed near Dogubayazit, close to the
border with Iran, the provincial governor's office
said in a statement.
Security forces found two guns and four grenades on
the man, the statement said. Officials said he took
part in an attack on a police station in Dogubayazit
on May 13 that left three officers wounded.
A second PKK member was killed near Pervari town in
the southeastern province of Siirt when he responded
with fire to calls to surrender, Anatolia said.
The PKK has stepped up violence in the southeast
over the past several months, after it called off a
five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004 on
grounds that reforms by Ankara to expand Kurdish
freedoms were inadequate.
The group isblacklisted as a terrorist organization
by the United States and the European Union.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed some
37,000 lives, most of them PKK rebels, since 1984
when the group took up arms against Ankara.
AFP
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