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Turkish soldier, 3 rebels killed in clashes
 A Turkish soldier and three Kurdish rebels, one of them a woman, were killed in deadly fighting late on Tuesday in Tunceli province, security sources said.An army sergeant was killed when rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) opened fire on a military outpost near a village in the eastern province of Tunceli, the provincial governors office said in a statement. Three terrorists were killed and their weapons seized in the fighting that ensued, said the statement carried by the Anatolia news agency. A military sweep of the region is continuing, it said. Tunceli, a PKK stronghold, is about 600 kilometres north of the Iraqi border, where clashes between the army and the separatists have recently intensified. Ankara has threatened to stage a military incursion into northern Iraq, where the PKK takes refuge. Posted by: Fred 2007-11-08 |
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