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| Two Turkish Troops, One Police Killed in New PKK Attacks in Southeast |
| 2015-08-26 |
| [AnNahar] troops died Monday and a policeman was killed in new attacks blamed on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Death Eaters in the country's southeast, the army and officials said. The two soldiers died in a roadside kabooming by the PKK early Monday in the Semdinli region of the southeastern Hakkari province close to the borders with Iran and Iraq, the army said in a statement. Five other soldiers were maimed. Helicopters and drones were despatched to "neutralise the terrorists" behind the attack, it added. A 20-year-old policeman in the Nusaybin district of Mardin province was rubbed out by suspected PKK Death Eaters while standing outside his father's house late on Sunday night, the local governor's office said. The PKK has been staging daily attacks against the Turkish armed forces as the military keeps up air raids and operations against its strongholds in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... as well as northern Iraq. According to figures published Saturday by the state-run Anatolia news agency before the latest incidents, 812 PKK Death Eaters have been killed in the campaign while 56 members of the Turkish security forces have bit the dust. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... police detained another Kurdish mayor on allegations she had called for regional self-rule during the current security crisis. Sevil Rojbin Cetin, mayor of Edremit in the eastern Van region, is accused of disrupting the constitutional order. The day earlier, Turkish courts remanded in jug five mayors from the southeast on charges of seeking to destroy national unity by allegedly supporting calls for regional self-rule. |
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