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The Grand Turk
Three Turkish soldiers killed in clash with Kurds
2019-08-23
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in a clash with Kurdish "militants" in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
near the borders with Syria and Iraq, the local governor's office said on Thursday.

Three holy warriors from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were "neutralized" in the fighting, the Sirnak governor's office said in a written statement.

It said the soldiers were maintaining security for state energy company Ottoman Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) near the town of Silopi in Sirnak when the clash broke out on Wednesday.

The holy warriors had previously been spotted by a drone in the same area, it said.
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