Русская версияKurdish rebels have killed four Turkish soldiers in an attack on a
military station in eastern Turkey.
An estimated 20 members of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shot rockets and long range
firearms at the security headquarters in Bingol province. The
separatists fled after two of their members were killed in an
ensuing gunbattle with security personnel. The PKK launched its
armed insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984 with the aim of
creating an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. An estimated
40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Turkey, the
European Union and the United States regard the PKK as a terrorist
organisation.
(Deutsche Welle)
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