Turkey kills 21 Kurdish fighters
BBC
April 15, 2005
Turkish security forces have killed 21 members of the Kurdish paramilitary
group, the PKK, in south-eastern Turkey, officials in the area say.
Three members of the Turkish armed forces also died in the three-day
operation in Siirt province, they said.
It is reported to be the biggest clash in the area since the PKK declared a
unilateral truce in 1999.
Turkey's war with the separatist PKK guerrillas in the 1980s and 1990s left
more than 30,000 people dead.
The PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984, in a campaign to
create a Kurdish homeland in the south-east.
Turkish soldier
Turkey has previously attacked PKK strongholds in northern Iraq
Reports say the fighting broke out about 40km (25 miles) from the Iraq
border near the town of Pervari, when a group of PKK rebels responded with
gunfire after being ordered to surrender by Turkish security forces.
Turkish officials said guns, hand grenades, mines, rounds of ammunition and
explosives were seized in rebel hideouts in the area.
The rebels called off their truce last June, saying Turkey had not
reciprocated.
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was jailed by Turkey in 1999.
The Sirnak governor's office in southeastern Turkey said the latest security
operation began on 12 April.
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