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Kurd rebels kill 7 Turkish soldiers,
guard-agency
17.7.2006
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ANKARA, July 16
(Reuters) - Militant Kurdish separatists killed
seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard when they
attacked security forces near the town of Eruh in
southeast Turkey on Sunday, the semi-official
Anatolian news agency said.
It said the attackers were members of the Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) but gave no other details.
In a separate incident security forces said they had
killed three PKK members in a clash on the lower
slopes of Mount Cudi in Siirt province, also in the
southeast, on Friday.
Armed clashes have intensified since April, when the
Turkish military sent an extra 40,000 troops to the
border with Iraq, from where they believe PKK
guerrillas cross into Turkey.
Private NTV television reported on Saturday that
leading PKK member Murat Karayilan had been wounded
in the leg in late June in an Iranian artillery
attack on the PKK's main base in Mount Kandil in
north Iraq, but the report has not been confirmed.
Over 30,000 people have died in fighting between
Turkish security forces and the PKK since 1984, when
Kurdish rebels began their armed campaign to carve
out an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey.
The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by
the European Union, Turkey and the United States.
Reuters
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