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DIYARBAKIR, Kurdistan-Turkey, Sept 23 (AFP) -
11h54 - Security forces in southeastern Turkey
killed Friday a suspected Kurdish rebel allegedly
involved in the shooting of two policemen, officials
said.
In a separate incident, two soldiers were injured
while defusing a time bomb, they said.
The suspected member of the rebel Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) was killed in a shootout in Gurpinar, in
Van province, during an operation police launched
after two officers were shot dead when PKK militants
strafed a police station at the weekend.
The militant was carrying a gun and two hand
grenades, the officials said.
Three suspected PKK rebels were killed in another
shootout in Van late Wednesday.
In a separate incident Friday, two soldiers were
injured in Diyarbakir province when a time bomb
planted outside a checkpoint by suspected PKK rebels
went off while it was being defused, the governor's
office said.
Unrest in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has
markedly increased this year after the PKK called
off a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.
On Wednesday, the group extended a month-long truce
it had proclaimed last month to October 3. Security
forces, however, have brushed this aside and clashes
in the region continue.
Some 37,000 people have been killed since 1984 when
the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by
Turkey, the European Union and the United States,
took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast.
AFP
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