News From The Guerrilla War In Kurd

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Subject: News From The Guerrilla War In Kurdistan

News From The Guerrilla War In Kurdistan

Translated By Arm The Spirit From Kurdistan-Rundbrief #25/26
December 19, 1996

Turkish Army Suffers More Heavy Losses

On November 26, the People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan (ARGK) entered
the city of Cukurca in Hakkari province from many sides and fired heavy
weapons on the security agency headquarters and a military building.
Near the village of Asagl in Kulp district, a military convoy was
attacked by the ARGK, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 3 others.

On November 27, a clash between the ARGK and state forces in the
Karaoslan region of Dersim-Ovack left 4 Turkish soldiers dead. Another
clash in Dersim-Hozat left 1 soldier dead. The guerrilla suffered no
losses in either confrontation. An ARGK attack on the Biles military
station in Dersim-Ovack and in clashes in Bilkli, Gaffer, and Demkok in
Dersim-Hozat on November 28/29 left 25 soldiers and 2 guerrillas dead,
according to the DEM News Agency.

On November 29, the ARGK carried out a road control on the Batman-Sason
highway. They burned a bus belonging to the state water and electricity
corporation YSE and took one village guard prisoner. 2 soldiers and 9
village guards were wounded in subsequent fighting.

On November 30, the ARGK advanced from four directions into the city
center of Omerli in Mardin province at 5:30 pm. They fired B-7 rockets
and heavy machine guns on the state security building, army barracks,
government buildings, and the post office. That same day, the ARGK
ambushed a military convoy on the Omerli-Midyat highway, killing 1
soldier and wounding 2. An ARGK attack on a unit of soldiers stationed
on a hill north of Cukurca killed 7 soldiers.

On December 1, a clash between the ARGK and village guards near Kanikan
village in Kulp left 1 village guard dead and 3 others wounded. Later
that evening, 3 soldiers and 2 guerrillas were killed in clashes between
the cities of Kurtalan and Eruh in Siirt province.

On December 2, the ARGK ambushed state forces near the village of Merge
in Hakkari-Cukurca. During the 2-hour battle which followed, the Turkish
army suffered "heavy losses", according to the DEM News Agency. The
village guard settlement Sincan in the Mediterranean province
Hatay-Dortyol was fired upon with heavy weapons for 15 minutes by the
ARGK. The army launched an operation in the area following this attack,
but to no avail.

On December 3, a military station and gendarme guard post in the village
guard settlement Acut in Hakkari-Cukurca were attacked by the ARGK. The
guerrillas captured a large amount of weapons.

On the evening of December 3, a gendarme vehicle in the city of Ergani
in Diyarbakir province was fired upon by the guerrilla, killing 1
policeman and wounding 5 soldiers. The state forces then sealed off the
city and raided all the homes in the neighborhood where the attack took
place.

According to the DEM News Agency, clashes in the Sason-Siirt-Bitlis
region during a military operation left 20 soldiers dead. After the
battle, the bodies of two dead ARGK guerrillas were found. They seemed
to have died from poison gas.

Also according to DEM, 18 soldiers and 5 guerrillas were killed between
November 26 and December 7 during clashes between the ARGK and state
forces in Bingol province. A clash near the village of Kosbaba in
Diyarbakir province on December 6 left 1 soldier dead and 3 wounded.

On the evening of December 8, security forces in Midyat were attacked by
the ARGK with rockets. A guerrilla attack on a hill post in Bayrak left
1 Turkish officer and 4 soldiers dead.

Kurdistan-Rundbrief homepage: http://www.berlinet.de/kurdistan

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