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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish troops and PKK clash leaves 13 dead |
| 2010-07-07 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Kurdish guerrillas attacked a military outpost in southeast Turkey overnight, triggering a clash in which 10 militants and three Turkish soldiers were killed, security sources said on Tuesday. The assault was part of an upsurge in attacks on the armed forces since the rebels ended a 14-month ceasefire at the start of June. More than 80 soldiers have been killed so far this year, exceeding the death toll in 2009. The increased violence has undermined an attempt by the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to boost Kurdish minority rights and investment in the impoverished southeast in a bid to end a 26-year separatist conflict. Military helicopters flew in troop reinforcements to search for the remaining Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels who launched the attack in the mountainous Semdinli district of Hakkari province, near the border with Iraq.Three soldiers were also wounded in the fighting. The army operation was focused on the area around the Iraqi border, across which the militants frequently cross from bases in northern Iraq to attack the Turkish military. In response to the upsurge in attacks, the military has carried out air strikes on rebel targets in northern Iraq, where several thousand PKK guerrillas are based. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ION TURKEY, WAFF [paraph]> GIRLS ARE BEING SOLD "LIKE SLAVES" IN TURKEY'S SIRNAK REGION: WOMEN'S GROUP SAYS. Child, Tweens, + Teen Muslim Females being routinely + non-consenually sold as SECOND, ETC. WIVES = SLAVES-SERVANTS? to older Muslim Adult, Minor-aged Males, often in various pre-arranged marriages or as ECON BARTER FOR GOODS + $$$. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-07 22:43 |