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Earthquake Shakes Kurdish Southeastern
Turkey
21.2.2007
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February 21, 2007
ANKARA - Turkey, -- A moderate earthquake
with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 shook mainly
Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, a
seismology institute said. There were no immediate
reports of damage or injuries.
The epicenter of the quake was the town of Sivrice
in the province of Elazig, the Istanbul-based
Kandilli observatory said.
The area was struck by a magnitude-5.3 quake on Feb.
9.
``There is no damage or casualties according to
preliminary reports,'' Huseyin Cakirtas, deputy
governor of Elazig, told private CNN-Turk
television. ``We've dispatched teams to the area to
assess the situation.
The quake also was felt in the neighboring provinces
of Diyarbakir, Tunceli and Malatya, reports said.
Quakes are frequent in Turkey, much of which lies
atop the active North Anatolian fault. Two
devastating earthquakes killed about 18,000 people
in northwestern Turkey in 1999.
In 2003, an earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude
collapsed a school dormitory in southeastern Bingol
province, killing 83 children. The collapse was
blamed on poor construction.
A magnitude-6.4 quake killed 177 people in Bingol in
1995.
AP
** 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.
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)
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