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| The Grand Turk | |
| PKK clashes spread to towns amid curfews | |
| 2015-08-19 | |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish security forces have spread to towns in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeast, with curfews declared in the Lice and Silvan districts of Diyarbakir province. As violence continues, news of fatalities on both sides also continues to come. One person was killed and one maimed in the Silvan district of Diyarbakir on Aug. 18, where festivities between the Turkish military and PKK murderous Moslems raged. One soldier was killed and three others were maimed in festivities with PKK murderous Moslems in the Lice district of Diyarbakir on Aug. 18 after the gendarmerie forces launched an operation to seize PKK members who had closed the road between Diyarbakir and neighboring Bingöl province, the Turkish General Staff announced in a statement. The maimed soldiers were taken to a university hospital in Diyarbakir as Cobra helicopters were deployed to the conflict zone, the statement added. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... in an area between the eastern province of Ardahan's Göle district and Erzurum's Senkaya district, a village guard, identified as 42-year-old Yakup Akturk, departed this vale of tears after being maimed together with two fellow village guards after PKK members opened fire on them on Aug. 17. The village guards were reaching the area where PKK members had killed a bus driver who attempted to avoid an illegal checkpoint set up by the terror organization. Akturk was a father six.
More than 40 members of the Turkish security forces have been killed in violence linked to the PKK since the crisis began on July 20 when a suicide kaboom blamed on IS left scores of pro-Kurdish activists dead in the town of Suruc. | |
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