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Four Turkish soldiers killed in southeast
Turkey
13.5.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, May 13, -- Four soldiers and a
Kurdish rebel were killed on Saturday in an
operation by the Turkish army against guerrillas of
the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeastern
Turkey, local authorities said.
A statement issued by the office of the governor of
the province of Sirnak, near the Iraqi border, said
the soldiers clashed with PKK rebels in a
mountainous region.
Turkey has massed troops along the border as part of
an annual offensive against the banned PKK, whose
members regularly cross from Iraq to attack Turkish
forces and other targets.
Meanwhile two children were killed on Saturday in a
bomb explosion in eastern Turkey blamed by
authorities on the separatist Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK).
The bomb went off in an empty hut once used as a
garage in the province of Erzincan, killing two boys
and injuring two others playing nearby, a security
official told Reuters.
The boys were aged between 12 and 14, the official
said.
Violent clashes between rebels and security forces
have increased since the PKK ended a unilateral
cease-fire in 2004.
The Kurdish conflict has claimed more than 37,000
lives 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.
Reuters | AFP
Southeastern Turkey: Northern Kurdistan, known as (
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