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Two ruling party officials, 13 militants killed in southeast Turkey
[AlAhram] Kurdish Lions of Islam shot and killed two officials from the ruling AK Party in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 over the weekend, while the Ottoman Turkish military killed more than a dozen Lions of Islam in air strikes, state authorities said on Sunday.

Orhan Mercan, the AKP's deputy head in the Lice district of Diyarbakir province, was shot in front of his home on Friday night and died of his wounds in hospital, the provincial governor's office said.

Militants killed Aydin Ahi, deputy head of the AKP in the Ozalp district of Van province on Saturday night, the governor's office said. Security sources said the gunnies seized Ahi from his home at gunpoint and killed him nearby.

Energy Minister Berat Albayrak wrote on Twitter that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Lions of Islam had killed both men.
...because everyone knows the dreaded Gulenists don't actually do violence, despite all the arrests.
There was no immediate comment on the attacks from the PKK, but the group has targeted officials from the party in the past.

Violence flared across the region on Saturday.

In an air strike in the southeastern province of Mardin, the Ottoman Turkish military killed five PKK Lions of Islam preparing an attack on an army base, a general staff statement said.

In separate air strikes on Saturday, the army also killed five PKK fighters in southeast Turkey's Bingol province and another four Lions of Islam in the Metina region of northern Iraq, the army said.

It said another three PKK Lions of Islam were killed in festivities on Saturday in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Hakkari and Sirnak.
An Nahar adds:
Sixteen PKK suspects have already been detained for the assassination, Anadolu said.

Anadolu said Ahi's predecessor had also been assassinated in similar circumstances last year
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