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Landmine kills soldier, injures two in
southeast Turkey
27.7.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, July 27, -- A Turkish soldier was
killed and two others injured in the southeast of
the country Thursday in a landmine explosion blamed
on Kurdish rebels, security sources said.
The explosion occurred during a sweep in rural areas
near the town of Genc, in Bingol province, the
sources said.
Attacks using remote-controlled landmines are a
hallmark of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK),
which has stepped up violence in the mainly Kurdish
region since it called off a unilateral truce in
June 2004.
The Turkish army intensified its operations against
the PKK after 15 members of the security forces were
killed in recent fighting with the rebels based in
the mountains of neighbouring Kurdistan (northern
Iraq).
Ankara says the PKK uses northern Iraq as a
springboard for attacks inside Turkey and has
threatened a cross-border operation if Washington
and Bagdad fail to crack down on the organisation
regarded as a terrorist group by Turkey, the
European Union and the United States.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984,
when the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
southeast of the country.
AFP
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