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Turkish soldier killed, 8 injured in
Kurdish rebel ambush
5.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 5, 2006 (AFP) , - Separatist
Kurdish rebels ambushed a military convoy in
southeastern Turkey, killing a soldier and wounding
eight others, officials said.
The attack occurred Sunday night on a road linking
the cities of Bingol and Elazig, Bingol Governor
Vehbi Avuc was quoted as saying by Anatolia news
agency.
The security forces launched an operation to hunt
down the assailants, believed to be members of the
outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Meanwhile, a shadowy Kurdish group, the Kurdistan
Freedom Falcons (TAK), claimed responsibility for a
blast in the southern Mediterranean city of Mersin
on Sunday, which left 15 people injured.
"As long as oppression continues in Kurdistan, no
region of Turkey will be in peace," a statement on
TAK's website said.
The Turkish authorities say TAK is a front for PKK
attacks on civilians.
Sunday's blast, which came from an ice cream fridge
outside a shop in downtown Mersin, was caused by a
grenade remotely detonated via a mobile phone,
police officials told Anatolia.
Mersin is home to a large community of Kurdish
migrant workers from the predominantly Kurdish
southeast.
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 self-rule in
the southeast.
AFP
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