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Turkish Skorsky helicopter shot down by
Kurdish PKK rebels: PKK
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The Turkish army operation expanding in Dağlıca
region. Photo : militaryphotos.net
June 19, 2012
DIYARBAKIR, The Kurdish
region of Turkey, — According to information
received from Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK sources,
one skorsky type helicopter was shot down by
guerrillas and two others were damaged and drawn
away from the clashes area in Dağlıca (Oremar)
region of Hakkari, the in southeastern Turkey
(Northern Kurdistan), ANF news agency reported.
As details come up concerning PKK guerrillas’ attack
on a Turkish military base of Derecik Internal
Security Battalion Command at early hours on
Tuesday, many Turkish soldiers are reported dead in
clashes that are still continuing in the area.
Eight Turkish soldiers and 10 Kurdish PKK rebels
were
killed early Tuesday in clashes in southeast
Turkey, the local governor's office said, cited by AFP.
Heavy weapons like rocket launchers were used in PKK
guerrillas’ simultaneous attacks which targeted
several mobile posts as well as three battalion
commands in Dağlıca region,www.ekurd.net
reported PKK sources and noted that over 20 Turkish
soldiers were killed in the attack on Yeşiltaş (Şitazin)
military post.
It was also remarked that the bodies of many dead
soldiers cannot be taken out of the area as clashes
still continue.
Local sources have reported on Tuesday that more
than 30 Turkish soldiers died in the attack on the
military post in the village of Yeşiltaş where
soldiers opened fire on people after the attack,
wounding one villager.
The PKK has several times proposed peaceful solutions regarding Kurdish problem,
Turkey has always refused saying that it will not negotiate with “terrorists”.
Since it was established in 1984, the PKK has been
fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the
constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a
Kurdish state in the south east of the country, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000
lives.
But now its aim is the creation an autonomous
Kurdish region
and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who
constitute the greatest minority in Turkey,
numbering more than 20 million. A large Turkey's
Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees,
lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the
way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within
Turkey, reducing pressure on the detained PKK leader
Abdullah Öcalan, stopping military action against
the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish
constitution.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
The PKK is considered ass 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara and U.S. The PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
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