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| Two soldiers, 34 Kurdish rebels killed in Turkey clashes: Army | |
| 2015-09-26 | |
| [AlAhram] Two Turkish soldiers and 34 Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting in the southeast, where scores of people have died since the July breakdown of a ceasefire, the army said Friday. The soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by the Death Eater Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) near Beytussebap district in Sirnak province on Thursday, the army's high command said in a statement. The military responded with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... launched a major "anti-terrorist" campaign against the PKK in late July, aimed at flushing it out of its strongholds in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's predominantly Kurdish southeast and across the border in the mountains of northern Iraq. The group has hit back hard, killing around 150 soldiers and police, according to pro-government media, which estimates the corpse count in the rebels' ranks at over a thousand. The escalation shattered a grinding of the peace processor launched by Erdogan in 2012, which had raised hopes of an end to the PKK's three-decade insurgency, in which over 40,000 people have been killed.
In a statement Friday, the Turkish Military Command announced the festivities with the PKK in the early hours of the day. The statement said PKK guerrillas had attacked a military base in Beytussebap, west of Sirnak, where daily festivities have been taking place. Curfews have been imposed in the areas close to the festivities and drones would find and target PKK retreats in retaliation, the statement warned. It also said the PKK suffered casualties, but did not elaborate further. | |
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