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| Three Turkish soldiers, 13 PKK militants killed in clashes |
| 2016-11-01 |
| [AlAhram] Three Turkish soldiers and 13 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) snuffies were killed on Monday during festivities in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's largely Kurdish southeast, security sources said. Turkish soldiers were on an operation in the Daglica district of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq, when festivities broke out, leaving three of the soldiers and four snuffies dead, the sources said. One Turkish soldier was also maimed, they added. Nine more PKK snuffies were killed and four were severely maimed in an operation in the Hisar region of Hakkari, security sources said. The Turkish military said earlier this month that a total of 463 snuffies had been killed in military operations in the Hakkari province. An operation is being carried out in the region to root out the snuffies with aerial and gendarmerie support, the sources said. In security operations over the past week, 28 PKK snuffies were "neutralised", the Interior Ministry said on Monday. |
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