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Two soldiers killed in Kurdish rebel
attack on Turkish military post
27.4.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, April 27, 2006 (AFP) - Two Turkish
soldiers were killed and another wounded in an armed
attack by Kurdish rebels on a paramilitary troop
station in eastern Turkey, local security sources
here said Thursday.
In the attack, late Wednesday, Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) rebels threw a hand grenade at the
station, in the village of Karsilar in Tunceli
province, and then opened fire on it, the source
said.
An operation is underway to catch the assailants.
Violence in Turkey's mainly Kurdish-populated east
and southeast has increased markedly since June
2004, when the PKK called off its five-year truce
and the rebels started to penetrate Turkey from
their bases in northern Iraq.
The Turkish army has recently amassed troops in the
southeast, in areas along the borders with Iraq and
Iran, to crack down on militants whose infiltrations
increase with the arrival of spring.
Turkey says an estimated 5,000 PKK rebels have found
refuge in northern Iraq since 1999 when the group,
considered a terrorist organization by both Ankara
and Washington, declared a unilateral ceasefire and
withdrew from Turkey.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984
when the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
southeast.
AFP
Southeast Turkey: Northern Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
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