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Turkey: Kurdish militants killed in new air raids, claims military
(AKI) - Turkish warplanes and artillery units killed a number of Kurdish separatists in a fresh wave of military action on Thursday. Military spokesman Gen. Metin Gurak told Turkish media that the operation took place late Thursday against members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). But he did not give any specific location or an estimate of how many terrorist suspects had been killed. Turkey has pledged to destroy rebel strongholds following the killing of 17 Turkish soldiers in a raid near the Iraqi border last Friday. Turkey responded with several days of air strikes in Iraqi territory. A fresh attack on Wednesday killed five police officers and wounded 19 others on the outskirts of Diyarbakir in the southeast. The Turkish Parliament on Wednesday approved a government request to extend for another year a mandate to launch military operations against suspected PKK militants in northern Iraq. Gurak said members of the group were detected through surveillance and most of its members had been killed in the attack along the rugged Iraqi border. Posted by: Fred 2008-10-11 |
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