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Roadside blasts kill three Turkish
soldiers in Turkey
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DIYARBAKIR,
Turkey-Kurdistan, December 6, -- Two roadside blasts
blamed on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
have killed three soldiers in southeast Turkey,
officials said on Wednesday.
The explosives, planted on a rural road in Sirnak
province, were detonated by remote control while a
convoy of three military vehicles carrying new
conscripts was passing on Tuesday, the office of the
Sirnak governor said.
Fourteen soldiers were injured.
Five PKK rebels were killed in clashes with the army
in the same region on Monday.
The PKK called a unilateral ceasefire on October 1,
saying it hoped to pave the way for a peaceful
resolution of the Kurdish conflict.
The truce, like previous ones called by the rebels,
was rejected by Turkey, but fighting has decreased
markedly since then.
More than 37,000 people have died since the PKK,
considered a terrorist group by Turkey and much of
the international community, took up arms for
self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast in 1984.
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"
Southeast Turkey.
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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