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Eight die in Turkish army clashes with rebels in
southeast
22.7.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, July 22, 2006 (AFP) ,-- Six
Kurdish rebels and two Turkish soldiers died in
clashes Friday and Saturday in the mainly Kurdish
southeast of the country, local and official sources
in the region's main city Diyarbakir said.
Two rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) were killed Friday night by security forces in
a mountainous district in the province of Sirnak,
neighbouring Iraq.
Four other PKK members were killed Friday in the
province of Van, close to Iran, in an operation in
which four members of the security forces were
injured, one of whom died Saturday from his wounds,
the Anatolia news agency reported.
A second soldier died Friday in Sirnak when the
helicopter in which he was travelling came under
fire.
The Turkish army has intensified its operations
against the PKK, regarded as a terrorist
organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the
United States, after the deaths of 15 members of the
security forces in the past week in the southeast of
the country.
Ankara has raised the possibility of making military
incursions into northern Iraq to destroy the many
PKK camps there if the United States and Iraq do not
themselves take steps against the rebels.
Since the PKK began its separatist rebellion in 1984
some 37,000 lives are estimated to have been lost.
AFP
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