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Kurd rebels kill officer, hurt guards in
SE Turkey 25.9.2006
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TUNCELI,
Kurdistan-Turkey, September 25 ,-- Kurdish rebels
killed an army officer on Monday in Turkey's
troubled Kurdish southeast, security officials said,
and also claimed responsibility for a weekend
bombing that wounded 12 people.
The officials said members of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) killed the officer and wounded
two village guards in an ambush in the province of
Mardin. Village guards are responsible for security
in rural areas.
The army launched a fresh offensive against the PKK
in the region, backed up by helicopter gunships, the
officials said.
Separately, the PKK claimed responsibility for
Saturday's truck explosion in front of a police
building in eastern Turkey which wounded three
policemen and nine other people.
"The bomb attack against the police building in
Igdir was carried out by PKK militants," it said on
its website.
The injured in that attack included four visiting
soccer players and their coach from Ankara.
Ankara blames the PKK for the deaths of more than
30,000 people since the group launched its armed
struggle for an independent Kurdish homeland in
southeast Turkey in 1984.
Attacks have increased since the PKK called off a
unilateral ceasefire in 2004.
Tensions have been running especially high in the
southeast since a bomb killed 10 people, mostly
children, in the city of Diyarbakir earlier this
month, sparking protests by thousands of people
demanding an end to the violence.
Ankara blamed the PKK for that attack, but the
rebels denied responsibility. Some local people
blamed shadowy elements in the Turkish security
apparatus for the bomb.
Reuters
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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