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Four killed in clashes in Turkey's Kurdish
southeast
9.3.2007
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March 9, 2007
TUNCELI, Kurdish Southeastern region of
Turkey, March 9, -- A Kurdish guerrilla and three
pro-government village guards have been killed in
clashes in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, an
army source said on Friday.
"A group of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants
attacked army troops based in the mountains in
Sirnak province and a PKK militant was (killed)
after clashes on Thursday," said the army source,
who wished not to be named.
The guards, who were fighting alongside Turkish
troops, were killed in clashes with PKK rebels in
Siirt province on the Iraqi border, the source said.
More than 30,000 people have been killed in fighting
between Turkish security forces and the outlawed PKK
since the 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 and clashes have
continued, though at a lower intensity than before.
The Turkish army began a large-scale operation on
Friday, backed by gunships, against the rebels in
the mountains, the source said.
Spring is traditionally a tense time in Turkey's
southeast when PKK guerrillas step up attacks on
security forces.
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.
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.
Turkey is home to some 20 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of 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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