Turkish military launch big securit

[PeaceNet Middle East Team]

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Subject: Turkish military launch big securit

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	ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Army units backed by air force jets launched a
big security operation in the Mount Cudi area in southeastern Turkey for
the second time in two weeks Wednesday to clear the region of Kurdish
rebels, officials said.
	The operation came a day after Interior Minister Ismet Sezgin
returned from a five-day visit to Tehran where he signed an agreement in
which Iran and Turkey each pledged to curb the activities of dissident
groups of the other country on its soil.
	Military and Interior Ministry officials said the ground forces,
backed by air force jets, swept into the Tiket area of Mount Cudi, close
to the Iraqi border, blasting suspected hideouts of Kurdish rebels with
rocket fire.
	Officials said F-104s, F-4s and F-5s were used in the operations, but
casualty figures were not immediately available.
	The operation was aimed at flushing the area of guerrillas affiliated
with the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, a Marxist group seeking
to set up an independent state and known to operate from hideouts on
Mount Cudi and from bases in Iraq.
	Wednesday's operation was the second in about two weeks. Similar
operations were also launched in the Mount Cudi area last fall.
	Regional Gov. Unal Erken, who enforces emergency rule in the
southeastern provinces where the PKK rebels have been active since 1984,
told reporters after the operation early this month that five PKK
hideouts were found in Mount Cudi area.
	Tuesday, Sezgin told reporters on his return from Iran that the
agreement he reached with Iranian Interior Minister Abdullah Noori
covered security problems on the common border between the two
countries.
	Sezgin also held discussions with Iranian President Hashemi
Rafsanjani during his five-day stay.
	He said the Tehran agreement was similar to a border security
protocol he signed with Syria in April, when he visited Damascus and
held talks with President Hafez Assad and Syrian Interior Minister
Mohammed Harba.


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