Kurdistan - Turkey
Deadly clashes between Turkish army and Kurdish rebels
Saturday 04 October 2008
Fifteen Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels were killed during a rebel attack on a military post near the Iraqi border in the country's south-east, the Anatolia news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying Saturday.
Saturday 04 October 2008
By Reuters (text) / Jasper Mortimer reports from Turkey (video)Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish PKK separatist rebels in southeast Turkey on Friday, Turkey's General Staff said, in one of the deadliest attacks on the military this year.
It said at least 23 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in the fighting in the Semdinli region bordering Iraq and Iran.
Turkey's military has staged several cross-border operations, including a brief land offensive in February, against PKK bases in mountainous northern Iraq over the past 12 months.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan asked parliament last month to extend a mandate, which expires later this month, to launch further military operations against the PKK in Iraq.
Ankara blames the PKK, considered a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union, for the deaths of more than 40,000 people since it launched its campaign for an ethnic Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey in 1984.
06/10/2008 01:52:04 Alert a moderator
oh god
By Anonyme - new york
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh geeez
04/10/2008 13:35:33 Alert a moderator
They will get what they deserve*
By Özgür - Turkey/Ankara
You are displaying nearly half of the Turkey's map as kurdistan while knowing this is wrong and there is no nation called kurdistan.kurdistan is just something that kurds make up.And you are calling them as rebels knowing its a terrorist group.We know why you are doing that but you won't get what you want so please stop that kind of games.
And one more thing ; the more they attack us the more strong we will be agains them.kurdistan is just a dream for both them and the us.
04/10/2008 12:05:40 Alert a moderator
PKK terrorism in Northern Iraq
By Against terrorism - Istanbul
PKK is considered as terrorist organisation by EU, US. They killed around 40.000 civils during the last 20 years including babies, mothers, teachers. Please do not call these terrorists as rebels.
04/10/2008 12:00:49 Alert a moderator
terrorist
By celal - turkey-ankara
not rebels, they are just terorists.