Turkish security forces killed 10 militants of the banned
Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in clashes in eastern Turkey on
Sunday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
A military operation near Ortacanak village in the predominantly
Kurdish province of Bingol, which started three days ago and is
still going on, left 10 PKK rebels dead, according to the
report.
The Turkish military has recently launched several cross-border
attacks to fight against PKK separatists, who use the Kurdish
autonomous region in northern Iraq as a launch pad for attacks
against Turkey.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist
group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating
an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have
been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
(Xinhua News Agency February 4, 2008)
