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No let up in Turkey’s crackdown, amid evacuations and deaths in Kurdish southeast
[Rudaw] Turkish security forces evacuated some 500 residents in several towns in the country's Kurdish southeast, as festivities continued on Tuesday and the military said it had killed two more rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and lost one soldier.The official Anadolu Agency reported that residents of Silopi in Sirnak province were sheltered at a sports hall before being transferred to the homes of relatives in calmer districts. It said a Turkish soldier was killed along with two PKK fighters in an operation in the village of Olek in Bitlis province on Tuesday. Local media reports said that some homes in Silopi sustained heavy damage from festivities, which have continued across ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... since the military launched a crackdown on the PKK in late July, shattering a fragile peace deal with the Kurds that had been two years in the making. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-23 |
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