Fighting kills 15 in Turkey's southeast
Two
police officers, a soldier and 12 Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK)
fighters have been killed in Turkey's southeast in the space of 48 hours
in operations to push back the militant group, the army says.
The
soldier came under rocket fire on Friday in the district of Cizre,
where 12 PKK militants also died in an ongoing military operation, the
army said on its website.
One policeman was killed in Cizre late
on Thursday when he and a group of colleagues came under rocket attack
as they tried to break down barricades set up by PKK fighters, Dogan
said.
A second officer was killed on Friday by a remote-controlled
bomb in the district of Sur, where the local authorities have imposed a
ban on demonstrations, Dogan said.
Turkey's predominantly Kurdish
southeast has plunged back into some of its worst violence since the
1990s after a two-year ceasefire between the PKK and the state collapsed
in July.
The PKK first took up arms in 1984 to push for greater
autonomy in the southeast, and some 40,000 people have since been killed
in the violence. It is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the
United States and European Union.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on
Thursday there would be no let-up in a military campaign that he said
had killed more than 3000 militants this year.
Originally published as Fighting kills 15 in Turkey's southeast
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