| Eleven Kurdish separatist guerrillas and two Turkish soldiers were killed on Tuesday in renewed fighting in the country's southeast, a security official said. Violence in the mainly Kurdish southeast has been on the rise since Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters called off a six-year unilateral ceasefire on June 1, threatening to rekindle a separatist conflict that killed more than 30,000 people, mostly Kurds, in the 1980s and 1990s. The latest fighting broke out on August 28 in mountainous Sirnak province near the Iraqi border, the official said. |