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Three Turkish soldiers, policeman killed
in Kurdish rebel attacks
5.4.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, April 5, 2006 (AFP) - 11h01 -
Separatist Kurdish rebels killed at least three
soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast
during deadly Kurdish riots, media reports and
hospital sources said Wednesday.
The three soldiers were shot dead, and another four
were wounded, during a military operation against
the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the
mountains of Sirnak province near Iraq, the Anatolia
news agency reported.
Two news channels reported that five soldiers had
been killed.
Reinforcements were sent to the region, where the
operation is continuing, Anatolia said.
Separately, a policemen died from injuries sustained
during a PKK attack on a police station in the
province of Bingol, hospital sources said.
The officer was wounded late Tuesday when rebels
opened fire with automatic weapons fire on the
station in the town of Genc.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984,
when the PKK -- considered a terrorist group by
Turkey, the United States and the European Union --
took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in southeastern
Turkey.
The latest deaths followed a week of violence that
claimed 15 lives as Kurdish rioters clashed with
security forces in Istanbul and Turkey's
Kurdish-majority southeast.
Police opened fire to disperse the demonstrators,
many of them in their teens, who torched banks and
public buildings, vandalized shops and threw Molotov
cocktails.
The death toll included three women killed Sunday in
Istanbul when a petrol bomb attack set a bus on
fire, causing it to crash into another vehicle.
The Turkish government has accused the PKK of
orchestrating the unrest that first erupted on March
28 in Diyarbakir, the biggest city of the region,
after the funerals of PKK militants killed in
clashes with the army.
AFP
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