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Turkey: One Turkish soldier, 3 Kurd rebels
killed in clash
16.1.2007 |
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DIYARBAKIR,
January 16, -- Three Kurdish rebels and one soldier
were killed on Tuesday when they clashed in rural
Kurdish area of southeast Turkey, security officials
said.
It was the latest in a series of clashes between
troops and rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
in the region around Lice district,
near the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
Three PKK militants were killed in the area at the
weekend.
More than 30,000 Turkish soldiers and PKK guerrillas
have been killed since PKK group launched an armed
campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeast
Turkey in 1984.
The PKK called a unilateral ceasefire last October
but Turkey has dismissed the move as irrelevant and
clashes have continued, though at a
lower intensity than before.
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"
Southeast Turkey. The Kurds have no rights in
Turkey.
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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