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Three Kurdish rebels, soldier killed in
fresh Turkey clashes
18.4.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, April 18, 2006 (AFP) - 17h59 -
Three Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed in
clashes in southeast Turkey, officials said Tuesday,
in the latest episode of mounting violence in the
mainly Kurdish region.
Two of the rebels were killed in a mountainous area
in the province of Hakkari, near the borders with
Iraq and Iran, where a military operation against
the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has
been under way since last week, the office of the
Hakkari governor said.
A soldier was also injured in the shootout.
Separately, a soldier and a rebel were killed in
fighting that broke out late Monday during a
security sweep of the countryside for PKK militants
near Pervari town, Siirt province, security
officials said.
Meanwhile, police in the eastern city of Tunceli on
Tuesday detained 23 people -- most of them members
of the country's main Kurdish party, the Democratic
Society Party (DTP) -- on suspicion that they had
links with the PKK, local sources said.
The DTP condemned the detentions as the latest move
in an official campaign to put pressure on the party
since late March when Kurdish riots shook urban
centres for a week, claiming 16 lives.
"Since the latest incidents, several party
headquarters have been raided and some 50 senior
members have been illegally and arbitrarily
detained," the DTP said in a statement.
Turkish officials have accused the PKK of
orchestrating the riots and the DTP of toeing the
PKK line by repeating the banned organization's
appeal for civil disobedience.
Violence has been on the rise in the southeast since
the riots, which were followed by clashes in the
countryside between the army and the PKK.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984
when the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by
Ankara, the European Union and the United States,
took up arms for self-rule in the southeast.
AFP
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