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8 die as Turkish army, Kurdish militants clash
October 15, 2012 - 18:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish security forces killed six Kurdish militants
in gun battles in southeastern Turkey on Monday, October 15 during a
helicopter-backed raid on one of their camps, security sources said,
according to Reuters.
One soldier and a villager were also killed in ensuing clashes in the
Cukurca district of Turkey's Hakkari province, a mountainous area
bordering Iraq and Iran, the sources said. Four other soldiers and
three militants were wounded.
Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered a
terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union,
have carried out a spate of attacks on military targets in the past
few months, stepping up a 28-year-old insurgency.
Fighting between the army and the PKK intensified over the summer, a
development which Ankara sees as linked to the chaos in neighboring
Syria. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad of arming the PKK militants.
The fighting in Turkey over the summer was some of the heaviest since
the PKK took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish
state. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
October 15, 2012 - 18:37 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish security forces killed six Kurdish militants
in gun battles in southeastern Turkey on Monday, October 15 during a
helicopter-backed raid on one of their camps, security sources said,
according to Reuters.
One soldier and a villager were also killed in ensuing clashes in the
Cukurca district of Turkey's Hakkari province, a mountainous area
bordering Iraq and Iran, the sources said. Four other soldiers and
three militants were wounded.
Militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), considered a
terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union,
have carried out a spate of attacks on military targets in the past
few months, stepping up a 28-year-old insurgency.
Fighting between the army and the PKK intensified over the summer, a
development which Ankara sees as linked to the chaos in neighboring
Syria. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria's President
Bashar al-Assad of arming the PKK militants.
The fighting in Turkey over the summer was some of the heaviest since
the PKK took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish
state. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.