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ISTANBUL, June 25 (KUNA) -- One Turkish soldier was killed and three others
were injured on Monday during violent clashes between army troops and elements
of the separatist Kurdish organization, the PKK, in southeast Turkey, security
sources said.
According to the Turkish Television News NTV, the fighting took a place in
a regional close to the borders with Iraq and Iran.
The military dispatched reinforcements to the battle ground where the
clashes were still continuing.
The firefight occurred hours after the Turkish Army bombarded PKK
strongholds, in retaliation for an attack by the rebels on a position of the
army near the Iraqi border that killed eight soldiers.
Thousands of PKK rebels are stationed in mountains in northern Iraq and
lunch attacks from there in a targets in eastern Turkey which is mainly
Kurdish. (end)
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