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Turkish army kills 11 Kurdish rebels
24.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 23, 2006 (AFP) , -- Eleven
Kurdish rebels were killed on Friday in clashes with
the Turkish army in the southeast of the country,
local security officials said.
Fighting broke out with rebels from the Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) during a routine security sweep
in countryside near the town of Cukurca, Haakri
province, close to the border with Iraq.
Commando units, backed by air cover, killed eight
rebels in the initial contact and later chased down
three other militants who were fleeing, the
officials said.
There were no losses on the Turkish side.
The PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, has
stepped up its violent campaign this year.
The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed more than
37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms
for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
AFP
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