http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A1232F30-9D28-4D14-8051-F877281E0FC6.htm
Turkish troops crack down on rebels
Saturday 18 June 2005, 13:28 Makka Time, 10:28 GMT
Members of Kurdistan's Workers Party (PKK) were also killed
Turkish forces backed by helicopters have killed 17 Maoist rebels in ongoing
clashes in the mountainous eastern province of Tunceli, according to provincial
authorities.
The fighting on Saturday, the worst in recent years, occurred in a remote
valley, considered a centre for Kurdish rebel groups.
The slain rebels were members of the underground Maoist Communist Party (MKP),
which aspires to overthrow the government, according to Turkish officials.
Security sources who spoke of nine dead on Friday said the tally included
senior members of the group.
In a separate incident at Van, near the Iranian border, Turkish troops killed
two members of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the semi-official
Anatolia news agency reported, quoting local officials.
Tensions in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast and east have escalated since
last year when the PKK ended a five-year unilateral ceasefire with the
government.
The group waged a bloody campaign for Kurdish self-rule in the region between
1984 and 1999, which claimed about 37,000 lives.
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