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Army kills six Kurdish rebels in southeast
Turkey
8.4.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, April 8, 2006, -- Turkish security
forces on Friday killed six Kurdish rebels suspected
of involvement in the deaths of five soldiers, local
security sources said Saturday.
The security forces used helicopters to mount an
attack on a group of eight separatist militants from
the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Sirnak in
southeast Turkey (Kurdistan-Turkey), two kilometres
(just over a mile) from where five Turkish soldiers
were killed on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers died in
a mine explosion and a further three were killed by
rebels.
Two of the rebels escaped under cover of darkness
and the army is now combing the majority Kurdish
mountainous region of south-east Anatolia, the
sources added.
The burials last week of rebels killed by Turkish
security forces sparked several days of riots in the
region.
Twelve people were killed in the worst urban unrest
in the country for years and a further three died
when PKK sympathisers threw molotov cocktails in
Istanbul, in the northeast of the country.
The PKK, branded a terrorist organisation in Turkey
and the West, has been waging an armed campaign for
Kurdish self-rule in the southeast since 1984. The
conflict has claimed some 37,000 lives.
AFP
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