Turkey Reports Heavy PKK Losses

  • Middle East Newsline
  • October 19, 2008
ANKARA [MENL] -- Turkey's military has reported heavy Kurdish insurgency
casualties in attacks along the border with Iraq.
The military said at least 35 fighters of the Kurdish Workers Party were
killed in less than a week in battles along the border with Iraq in
mid-October. On Oct. 17, the General Staff said the figure was based on
intercepts of PKK communications in the Turkish province of Sirnak.
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