PKK, soldiers killed in major anti-militant operation


Twelve people have been killed after the Turkish army launched a massive operation against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in southeastern Turkey.


Security sources said on Thursday that six Kurdish rebels and six policemen were killed in the anti-PKK operation that started on Tuesday.

Thousands of police and army forces, backed by helicopters and fighter jets, have the offensive, Turkey’s largest such operation so far in 2012.

Clashes between the Kurdish militants and government troops were still continuing on Thursday on the outskirts of Mount Cudi in Sirnak Province, near the Syrian and Iraqi border.

Turkey launched a large-scale air and land offensive against the armed separatists in October in the southeast of the country and in northern Iraq after 24 of its troops were killed in an overnight terrorist attack.

In December, Turkish air strikes killed 34 Kurdish smugglers, mostly teenagers, near the Iraqi border when commanders mistook them for PKK militants.

Tens of thousands of people have lost their lives since PKK terrorists embarked on an armed struggle against Ankara in 1984 in a quest to form an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party is listed as a terrorist organization by much of the international communities, including Turkey, Iran, the European Union, and the United States.
Source:  http://presstv.com/detail/232796.html

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