Six Turkish soldiers killed by Kurds
Six Turkish soldiers have been killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels near the border with Iraq, Turkish reports say.
Tuesday, 20.07.2010.
12:07
Six Turkish soldiers have been killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels near the border with Iraq, Turkish reports say. The attack took place overnight on a military outpost near the town of Cukurca in Hakkari province, south-east Turkey. Six Turkish soldiers killed by Kurds Several soldiers were wounded in the attack. There were no reports of casualties among the rebels, but the military said it was pursuing them. Clashes have flared in the past few months after a period of relative calm. The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has mounted a series of attacks on government forces since a tentative peace process broke down. In May, imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan said he had given up hopes of dialogue with the government. Tuesday's attack was one of the worst suffered by the Turkish army during a year in which dozens of soldiers have been killed. The Turkish military has responded to the rebels' escalation by carrying out air strikes on rebel targets in northern Iraq, where several thousand PKK guerrillas are based. Last year, the Turkish government announced an initiative to end the conflict and to address the grievances of the Kurdish minority, but the peace drive foundered in the face of strong nationalist opposition, and now seems to have been abandoned, correspondents say. The PKK began its armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for a Kurdish homeland within Turkey. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the resulting conflict.
Six Turkish soldiers killed by Kurds
Several soldiers were wounded in the attack. There were no reports of casualties among the rebels, but the military said it was pursuing them.Clashes have flared in the past few months after a period of relative calm.
The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has mounted a series of attacks on government forces since a tentative peace process broke down.
In May, imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan said he had given up hopes of dialogue with the government.
Tuesday's attack was one of the worst suffered by the Turkish army during a year in which dozens of soldiers have been killed.
The Turkish military has responded to the rebels' escalation by carrying out air strikes on rebel targets in northern Iraq, where several thousand PKK guerrillas are based.
Last year, the Turkish government announced an initiative to end the conflict and to address the grievances of the Kurdish minority, but the peace drive foundered in the face of strong nationalist opposition, and now seems to have been abandoned, correspondents say.
The PKK began its armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for a Kurdish homeland within Turkey. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the resulting conflict.
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