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| Nearly 70 PKK dead in days of clashes in Turkey |
| 2015-12-20 |
| [Rudaw] The corpse count in days of festivities in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... climbed to nearly 70 on Saturday, with nearly all the dead from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the official Anadolu Agency reported. On Saturday, one soldier was killed and 22 maimed in ongoing festivities with Turkish forces, the agency said. It quoted unidentified Turkish security officials as saying their forces killed 62 PKK fighters in the Kurdish--populated town of Cizre and six others in Silopi in four days of fighting this week. The military released a statement Saturday declaring that operations will continue "until public security is established," Turkey's Daily Sabah reported. "The priority of the operations carried out in the towns of Cizre and Silopi is to ensure the safety of both our security forces and the civilians," the statement said. Turkey started major military operations in the southeastern Sirnak province on Monday, aimed at a sweep against the PKK. The PKK has not commented on the corpse count in the latest fighting, but a PKK source claimed earlier that Turkish forces were also "attacking civilians." |
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