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Three Turkish Soldiers Die in Clashes With Kurdish Militants in Southeast

© AFP 2023 / MURAT BAYTurkish soldiers take cover in front of a barricade during clashes with Kurdish militants in Silvan on November 13, 2015
Turkish soldiers take cover in front of a barricade during clashes with Kurdish militants in Silvan on November 13, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Turkey's General Staff said that three Turkish servicemen were killed in clashes with members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

People react as smoke billows from burning pallets set on fire during clashes between Turkish riot policemen and Kurdish protesters in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on November 1, 2015 after first results of the Turkish general election showed a clear victory to the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at Kurds who were protesting after the election appeared to deliver a clear victory to AKP, an AFP photographer said. Latest results say the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) won slightly over 10 percent of the vote, just enough to scrape into parliament. - Sputnik International
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ANKARA (Sputnik) Three Turkish servicemen were killed in clashes with members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey's General Staff said on Wednesday.

"Six of our servicemen were wounded, three of them died in hospital, in an attack by members of the separatist terrorist organization in the district of Sur, Diyarbakir," the General Staff said in a statement.

Some 700 PKK separatists have been killed since mid-December, according to the General Staff. A curfew is in effect across southeastern regions, including Diyarbakir and the surrounding provinces, amid continuing clashes.

The General Staff said nine militants were killed in Sur and 11 more in Cizre on the Syrian border.

Tensions mounted after 33 Kurdish activists were killed in the town of Suruc last July. PKK fighters later claimed to have killed two Turkish police officers, leading Ankara to step up its campaign against the group.

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