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| Clashes Leaves 13 Kurdish Rebels, One Turkish Soldier Dead |
| 2012-02-10 |
| [An Nahar] Thirteen Kurdish rebels and one Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in festivities in southeastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, quoting local officials. One soldier was killed and six maimed overnight when rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) opened fire on an army unit near Cukurca, close to the Iraqi border, Hakkari provincial governor Muammar Turker told Anatolia. "Our forces fired back and fighting went on for about an hour and a half. The faceless myrmidons then beat feet under cover of darkness, while we recovered the bodies of four of them," he added. A second clash, also overnight, occurred in Ilica, Bingol province, where security forces stormed a house occupied by rebels, local authorities told Anatolia. "Three members of the organization were captured and the bodies of nine others found," local authorities said, adding that assault rifles, grenades and explosives were recovered from the house. |
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