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Turkey: Kurdish rebels killed, soldiers
injured
24.10.2006 |
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Diyarbakir,
Turkey-Kurdistan, October 24, -- Three people were
killed and two soldiers were injured in clashes in
southeastern Turkey between military forces and
separatist Kurdish rebels, the Turkish army said
Tuesday.
The incident took place near the ancient city of
Hasankeyf in the mainly Kurdish Batman province on
Monday.
The outlawed Separatist Workers' Party (PKK), which
has been fighting the Turkish army since 1984,
ordered a unilateral ceasefire from October 1,
saying it hoped this would pave the way for a
dialogue to resolve the conflict.
But the truce, like previous ones called by the PKK,
was quickly rejected by Turkey.
Only five days after the ceasefire, two soldiers
were wounded in eastern Turkey's remote Tunceli
province.
Another soldier was killed a week later in a clash
in the southeastern province of Siirt, and two PKK
rebels were killed in separate fighting in the
Sirnak province, also in the southeast.
The ceasefire came after a sharp rise in violence by
the PKK, which Turkey says uses neighboring
Kurdistan region (northern Iraq) as a springboard
for attacks on Turkish agents across the border.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984,
when the PKK, classified as a terrorist organization
by Turkey, the United States and the European Union,
took up arms for self-rule in the mainly Turkish
southeast.
AFP
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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