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08:47, November 20, 2008 |
Turkish General Staff said on Wednesday that one militant of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) was killed in a clash in southeastern Turkey.
The clash between the Turkish security forces and the PKK rebels occurred in a mountainous area in Guclukonak town of Sirnal province on Tuesday, the General Staff said in a statement published on its website.
The statement said that security forces had launched the large-scale operation in pursuit of PKK members in the region.
Meanwhile, the statement added that one PKK member surrendered to the Turkish security forces in Silvan town of southeastern Diyarbakir province.
The Turkish forces take tougher actions against the PKK after the country's legislature extended on Oct. 8 the government's mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source:Xinhua
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