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Turkish military helicopter crashes, injuring two
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May 2, 2007
ANKARA, Turkey: A Turkish military helicopter
crashed on Tuesday while trying to make an emergency
landing in the south of the country and both pilots
were injured, local authorities said.
The U.S.-made Cobra attack helicopter was on a
mission in the southeast, where Turkish soldiers
battle separatist Kurdish guerrillas, local media
said.
It crashed near the village of Karpuztepe, north of
Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish city
in the Kurdish region of southern turkey, the
state-run Anatolia news agency said. Local
authorities said it had been trying to land because
of unspecified mechanical difficulties.
More than 30,000 Turkish soldiers and PKK guerrillas
have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
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.
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.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
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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