TURKEY: Turkey's army killed 15 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq

Record ID: 339213

  • Title: TURKEY: Turkey's army killed 15 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq
  • Date: 29th March 2008
  • Summary: (EU) CIZRE, SIRNAK, TURKEY (MARCH 29, 2008) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MILITARY VEHICLE CONVOY MOVING TO BORDER AREA VARIOUS OF TURKISH MILITARY TANKS PASSING THROUGH CIZRE TOWN IN THE BORDER AREA VARIOUS OF HELICOPTER FLYING OVER THE BORDER AREA
  • Embargoed: 13th April 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVAD3U9EZU9GI6YR5ZZ1AKEEZ20W
  • Story Text: Turkey's army killed 15 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Thursday using long-range land weapons, it said on Saturday.
    Turkey's army killed 15 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Thursday (March 27) using long-range land weapons, it said Saturday.
    The armed forces followed up the attack on the Kurdish separatists based in neighbouring northern Iraq with air strikes on Friday, the Chief of General Staff said on its website.
    The rebels were trying to cross the border into Turkey, the army said, adding it was unclear how many had been killed in the air strikes.
    Turkish warplanes and artillery have been bombing and shelling PKK positions periodically over several months, helped by intelligence provided by U.S. forces in Iraq.
    On Feb. 21, the military launched a large-scale ground incursion, sending thousands of troops into Iraq against the PKK. Turkey's General Staff says 240 rebels were killed in the week-long campaign, along with 27 of its own men.
    Turkey blames the PKK for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, since the group began its armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey in 1984.
    Turkey, like the European Union and United States, considers the PKK a terrorist organisation.
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