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Two Turkish security forces killed in
fighting with Kurdish rebels
10.3.2006
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VAN,
Kurdistan-Turkey, March 10 (Reuters) - Two members
of Turkey's security forces were killed on Friday in
fighting with Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey,
security officials said.
"The fighting is still going on. The security
forces' operation is also being supported from the
air (by military helicopters)," one official told
Reuters.
CNN Turk television said five people soldiers were
also wounded in the fighting, in a remote rural area
of Sirnak province near the Iraqi border.
Ankara blames the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
for the deaths of more than 30,000 people since the
rebels launched their armed struggle in 1984 for an
independent Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey.
Violence, which largely subsided after the 1999
capture of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, has ticked up
since the group called off a unilateral ceasefire in
2004.
Four Turkish policemen were killed on Monday when
PKK rebels ambushed their vehicle in the
southeastern city of Batman.
Officials say the PKK may also have been behind an
apparent suicide bombing in the eastern city of Van
on Thursday in which three people died.
Both the United States and the European Union regard
the PKK as a terrorist organisation.
Reuters
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