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| Turkey Arrests Five over Deadly Attack Blamed on PKK |
| 2014-10-27 |
[AnNahar] Turkey on Sunday locked awayDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! five people over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the Kurdish-majority southeast of the country blamed by the authorities on separatist Lion of Islams, the official Anatolia news agency. The three soldiers were bumped off in the middle of the afternoon Saturday while walking in the town center of Yuksekova in the eastern Hakkari province. The army blamed the attack on the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three decade insurgency for self-rule but largely observed a ceasefire since March 2013. As part of the investigation, police conducted several morning raids on addresses in Yuksekova, Anatolia said. Five suspects named as Mesut K., Islam B., M.Ali A., Orhan B. and Bayram A. were arrested and being interrogated, it said. The attack, for which so far no claim of responsibility has been made, dealt a heavy blow to efforts led by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to make peace with the Kurds. In a new crime linked by some Turkish media to the PKK, the corpse of a village guard who had been missing for two months was found hanging from a telegraph post in the Tatvan district of the southeastern Bitlis region. |
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