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Members of an outlawed terrorist group kept up their attacks on Turkey’s military overnight, killing one soldier and wounding another in the country’s east, bringing this weekend’s death toll to 12 soldiers, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.

Clashes broke out between soldiers and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, after the terrorists attacked a barracks near Palu in eastern Turkey, the agency said.

Security forces launched a search operation to find the assailants, the agency added.

Saturday was the bloodiest day in two years for the Turkish military after PKK members killed 11 soldiers in the far southeast of the country near the border with Iraq, the military said.

According to the military, 12 PKK members died in a counter-attack.

Turkish warplanes also launched bombing raids on PKK outposts in neighboring Iraq, where the terrorist organization has established rear bases for some 2,000 fighters, the military said.

The PKK has vowed to launch attacks in all Turkish cities if the government maintains its policy of military confrontation, a PKK spokesman told AFP on Saturday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to keep up the fight against the terrorist group and said Turkey was willing to “pay the price” to “annihilate” the PKK.

The mounting violence in recent months has undermined the government’s bid to reach a peaceful end to the 26-year conflict with the PKK.

The conflict with the PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has claimed more than 45,000 lives since it began in 1984, according to the military.

Teen killed in Turkish strikes

A local Iraqi official said Turkish air raids in Iraq’s Kurdish north have killed a teenage girl — the first reported civilian death from shelling that began last week.

Turkish warplanes often bomb suspected Turkish Kurdish terrorist positions, but the areas are sparsely populated and many have fled the villages being targeted.

Karmang Ezzat, mayor of the Soran border town, said Sunday that the girl’s mother and 3-year-old brother also were wounded in the previous night’s attack.

He says the planes pounded seven villages in Arbil province in a raid that started at 8:30 p.m. and lasted about 90 minutes.

Source: Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=kurdish-rebel-attacks-kill-another-turkish-soldier-report-2010-06-20

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