Turk forces kill rebels
Monday, June 19, 2006
Reuters
TUNCELI: Turkish forces killed three Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas in eastern Turkey on Sunday, while a bomb on a rail track wrecked a cargo train in the same region, military officials said.
Soldiers, supported from the air, attacked a group of 13 Kurdish guerrillas in the mountainous province of Tunceli and killed three, an army official said. The operation continued with extra troops being sent to the area.
Dozens of soldiers and militants fighting for a Kurdish homeland have been killed in recent months in clashes in eastern Turkey.
Earlier on Sunday, PKK members laid a bomb on a rail track which exploded as a cargo train passed, flipping 12 carriages and leaving eight unusable, another military official said.
Attacks on property and civilians in the poor, rural east and Turkey’s largest city Istanbul have also become more frequent.
