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Turkey vows crackdown on Kurdish separatists
 Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday pledged there would be "major decisions" on a crackdown on Kurdish separatists after they killed eight security forces earlier in the day. Members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard when they attacked security forces near the town of Eruh in southeast Turkey on Sunday, the semi-official Anatolian news agency said. "This PKK terror organisation has continued its attacks ruthlessly," Erdogan told his Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials in televised comments during a visit in eastern Turkey. "We have so far tried to be patient and solve the issue in a democratic manner. But yet again they killed eight children of ours. This is no longer bearable," he said. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-17 |
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