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The Kurdish insurgency in Turkey has returned to the level of the 1990s during the height of the war against Ankara. Officials reported a sharp rise in the number of insurgents from the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK. They said at least 2,500 PKK members have entered Turkey from Iraq over the last 18 months in a move that has restored the Kurdish insurgency. "The number of terrorists in Turkey equals the number at the time of PKK head Abdullah Ocalan's 1999 capture," Turkish Land Forces Commander Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said. In 1999, Turkey forced Syria to expel Ocalan. He was later captured in Africa and brought for trial to Turkey in a move that crippled the PKK for the next five years. |