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Pro-Kurdish leader urges peace talks with Turkey, four soldiers killed
[REUTERS] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Kurds on Monday marked the annual spring festival of Newroz with a call for the resumption of peace talks between the government and Kurdish bad boys, but four Turkish soldiers were killed in another rebel attack in the restive southeast region. The appeal from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) for peace talks also coincided with a pledge from Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to use all the country's military and intelligence might to crush terrorism following a spate of suicide kabooms, two claimed by Kurdish bad boys. Since last year's Newroz festival Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has seen a big upsurge in violence due to the collapse of a 2-1/2 year ceasefire in July between the Ankara government and bully boyz of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). In the latest attack, PKK fighters launched a kaboom on a military vehicle in the town of Nusaybin near the Syrian border, security sources said. The army said four soldiers were killed, while five soldiers and a police officer were maimed. The attack came as Kurds marked the Newroz festival, a traditional rallying point for PKK supporters who on Monday waved party flags and pictures depicting their incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! leader Abdullah Ocalan as they gathered in a park on the outskirts of Diyarbakir, the region's largest city. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-22 |
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