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Mine blast kills two soldiers in southeast Turkey
30.6.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, June 30 (Reuters) - A mine blast
killed two Turkish soldiers and wounded five others
near a police station in Turkey's troubled southeast
region, security officials said on Friday.
The police station had been the target of an attack
by Kurdish rebels late on Thursday in the
mountainous area of Bingol province about 100 km (60
miles) north of Diyarbakir, the biggest city in
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
Officials had said earlier the two soldiers died in
a firefight.
"An operation has been launched in nearby mountains
to catch the rebels," an official said.
Turkish security forces have been battling
separatist rebels of the banned Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) in the southeast for more than two
decades in a conflict that has claimed more than
30,000, mostly Kurdish, lives.
Like Turkey, the European Union, which Ankara hopes
to join, and the United States also class the PKK as
a terrorist group. But the EU has also urged Ankara
to boost Kurdish cultural rights and tackle endemic
poverty in the southeast.
Reuters
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