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| Turkish Police Officer Killed, 9 Wounded in PKK Clash |
| 2017-11-05 |
| [AnNahar] One The officers launched the operation to arrest a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the district of Kayapinar west of Diyarbakir city centre, it said in a statement. When they entered the building, festivities broke out during which a hand grenade exploded and 10 officers were maimed. One later died after being taken to hospital. Local resident Zahide Kilinc said she woke up to the sounds of gunfire around 6:00 am (0300 GMT) and saw officers open fire on a flat nearby. "Of course we were scared, the children were scared. It was like there was an attack on our home and not the opposite flat," she told AFP. The governor's office said a member of the PKK was also killed during the festivities. Six soldiers and two military security guards were killed on Thursday in festivities with the PKK in the province of Hakkari which borders Iraq. The interior ministry said on Thursday its security forces killed 46 members of the "separatist terror organization" -- Turkey's official term for the PKK -- in Sirnak and Hakkari in the southeast and Tunceli in the east, state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Anadolu said. It was not possible to independently verify the toll. |
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