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Renewed Clashes In Southeastern Turkey Kill Seven

May 06, 2007

(RFE/RL)

May 6, 2007 -- Turkish officials say that two Turkish soldiers and five guerrillas with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed late on May 5 and today in southeastern Turkey.


The outlawed PKK has been fighting for a homeland in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey since 1984.


Ankara blames the PKK for more than 30,000 deaths since then.


(Reuters)

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