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Turkish troops kill seven Kurd militants
in southeast Turkey
24.2.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, Feb 24 - Turkish security forces
have killed seven Kurdish guerrillas in the
country's troubled southeast Turkey (Northern
Kurdistan) , security sources said on Friday.
They said the rebels, members of the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK), were killed during a gun battle
in the province of Mardin near the Syrian border on
Thursday night.
The operations by the Turkish troops ended around
noon (1000 GMT) and two PKK shelters were destroyed,
the sources said.
Ankara blames the PKK for the deaths of more than
30,000 people since the group launched its armed
struggle for an independent Kurdish state in
southeast Turkey in 1984.
The PKK is classed as a terrorist organisation by
the European Union and the United States.
Turkish police also told a weekly news conference in
Ankara on Friday that Turkey's eastern neighbour
Iran had handed over 10 PKK militants during 2005.
"Iran handed over the PKK militants to us as part of
the ongoing cooperation between the two countries,"
police spokesman Ismail Caliskan said.
Iran handed 28 PKK rebels to Turkey in 2004, he
added.
An estimated 5,000 PKK rebels are holed up in the
mountains of mainly Kurdish northern Iraq. Turkey
has been pressing U.S. troops based in Iraq to crack
down on the organisation.
Reuters
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