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| At least 6 killed in latest Turkey-PKK clashes | |
| 2015-08-28 | |
| [Rudaw] At least six people, including a seven-year-old child, were killed in separate festivities between Turkish troops and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast, according to media reports and a pro-Kurdish politician. Media reports said that the child and two other people - a hospital worker and an electricity company employee -- were critically maimed in festivities Thursday in the Cizre district of southeastern Sirnak province. They said all three died in hospital. Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... three people were killed and at least seven injured in separate festivities in the Hakkari province district of Yuksekova, which was placed under curfew shortly before midnight Wednesday, according to Abdullah Zaydan, an MP with the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP). Those festivities, which have not been officially confirmed by Turkish authorities, began at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday and lasted until the next morning, Zaydan said in media comments. The state-run Anadolu Agency reported Wednesday that special forces in armored vehicles had been deployed in Hakkari's Semdinli district, about 50 kilometers southeast of Yuksekova. "Clashes erupted in old Kisla, Orman and Mezarlik neighborhoods of Yuksekova after the curfew declared yesterday at 11:30 p.m.," the Hurriyet Daily quoted Zaydan as saying. "According to information coming to us, 10 civilians were maimed, among whom three bit the dust. Ambulances trying to take the maimed were denied access to the area. Citizens want to take the maimed to the hospital by their own means, but security forces do not allow that either. We, as deputies, cannot access the area as well. The public was left to their own fate." The Turkish government reignited a war with the PKK after the rebels grabbed credit for the deaths of two army officers in late July. The fighting has ended a 2013 ceasefire that was meant to resolve a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed.
Four Kurds, including two boys aged seven and 10, died of gunshot wounds in hospital, the source said, adding that six others, including three Turkish soldiers, were also maimed in the fighting. In a separate incident on Thursday, a Turkish soldier was killed and four others maimed when PKK snuffies attacked security forces guarding a highway between the Lice district of Diyarbakir and Bingol province in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the army said in a statement. Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... was also raging between the army and PKK hard boyz in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari province, where authorities imposed a curfew late Wednesday. | |
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