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KurdistanObserver.com
Two Turkish Soldiers Killed In New Clash With Kurdish
Rebels
DIYARBAKIR, (Northern Kurdistan), Aug 11 (AFP)
- Two soldiers died and four were injured early Thursday in the latest of
a series of clashes with Kurdish rebels in the east of the country, local
security sources in Tunceli province said.
The fighting took place near the town of Tunceli, when rebels of the Workers
Party of Kurdistan (PKK) attacked an army patrol, they said.
Troops supported by helicopters were hunting the rebels, they added.
Clashes between the PKK and the army in the predominantly Kurdish-inhabited
east of the country have been on the rise since June last year, when the rebel
group, which both the United States and the European Union classify as
terrorists, said they were ending a truce they had declared five years earlier.
The latest attack came a day before Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan was due to visit Diyarbakir, the main city in the Kurdish majority
region.
During his visit on Friday, Erdogan is expected to appeal for reconciliation
in the two-decades-old Kurdish conflict, local media say. |
