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Turkish
soldier killed in clash
with Kurdish rebels
14.4.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, April 14, 2006 - A Turkish soldier
died in hospital here Friday from injuries sustained
in fighting with separatist Kurdish rebels,
officials said.
The clash occurred Thursday during a military
operation against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) on the boundary between Mardin and Sirnak
provinces near the Syrian frontier, Mardin Governor
Mehmet Kiliclar said in a statement carried by the
Anatolia news agency.
The soldier was taken to hospital in Diyarbakir, the
largest city of the mainly Kurdish southeast
(Turkey-Kurdistan), but could not be saved, the
agency said.
The statement said: "Operations in the region are
continuing against the separatist organization PKK".
Violence has increased in southeast Turkey since
late March, when Kurdish riots that shook urban
areas for a week were followed by clashes in the
countryside between the army and the PKK.
The Kurdish conflict has claimed more than 37,000
lives since 1984 when the PKK, blacklisted as a
terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and
the United States, took up arms for Kurdish
self-rule in the southeast.
AFP
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