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Subject: Mainstream News On PKK Resistance To Turkey's Invasion

Mainstream News On PKK Resistance To Turkey's
Latest Invasion Of South Kurdistan


Kurd Rebels Say 38 Turkish Troops Killed In Iraq

     ANKARA, Oct 4 (Reuter) - Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) said on Saturday it had killed 38 Turkish soldiers and
124 members of an Iraqi Kurdish militia allied to Ankara in a
week of fighting in northern Iraq. 
     The PKK said in a statement carried by the pro-Kurdish Dem
news agency that 26 of its own fighters had died in the same
period in the northern Iraq clashes. 
     Some 15,000 Turkish troops backed by air power have been
attacking PKK bases in Kurdish-held northern Iraq since late last
month in an offensive that has angered Baghdad. 
     The rebels, fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey,
said Turkish forces had fallen into a trap by entering the
mountains of northern Iraq. "It is the tactic of drawing the enemy
in and then hitting him," the statement said. 
     Turkey on Friday said it has killed 415 PKK members in
northern Iraq since the operation began late last month. 
     Western air patrols over northern Iraq have allowed Iraq's
Kurds to stay out of Baghdad's control since the end of the 1991
Gulf War.
     The United States has told the aircraft carrier Nimitz to
hurry to the Gulf to enforce a similar no-fly zone in southern
Iraq after Iran attacked bases of the Mujahideen Khalq, the main
Iranian opposition group, in Iraq this week, 
     Ankara says neighbours Iran and Syria have also gathered
troops near northern Iraq in an apparent response to Turkey's
operation, its second major cross-border push this year. 
     Inside Turkey, four Kurdish guerrillas and two members of a
state-paid militia were reported killed in a clash on Saturday.


Kurdish Rebels Kill Gendarmerie Police In Turkey 

     DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 3 (Reuter) - Kurdish guerrillas have
killed five gendarmerie policemen in an eastern Turkish province
despite government confidence that the rebels are losing steam
after 13 years of conflict.
     The troops died when Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels
launched a rocket attack on Thursday night on a gendarmerie post
in the eastern province of Van, near the Iranian border, a
security official told Reuters on Friday.
     Two rebels died in the clash, the official said. He said the
assailants were thought to have entered Turkey from Iran.
     Parliament on Thursday lifted a 10-year state of emergency in
three southeastern provinces where the government says it is
winning the fight against the rebels. One of the provinces,
Bitlis, borders Van.
     Emergency rule, in force since 1987, gives security forces
sweeping powers to curb the guerrillas. It remains in place in six
other provinces.
     Fighting has continued in the province of Mardin since
emergency rule was lifted last year. At least five civilians have
been killed there in the last two months, Kurdish journalists say.
     The pro-Kurdish daily Ulkede Gundem on Friday quoted rights
activist Cemil Aydogan as saying that rights violations have not
ended in Mardin.
     "Despite Mardin being taken out of the implementation (of
emergency rule), the rights abuses have continued," Aydogan said.
     The Anatolian news agency said the guerrillas killed a member
of a state-paid militia in the province of Hakkari, near the
border with Kurdish-held northern Iraq.
     Last week, Turkish troops backed by air power pushed into
northern Iraq in a cross-border operation designed to hit the PKK
before winter makes the rugged mountains impassable. 
     The guerrilla group said fighting was still going on around
its main camp in northern Iraq, which Ankara said it had captured
earlier this week.
     More than 26,000 people have died in fighting between troops
and the PKK, which took up arms in 1984 to back its demand for
self-rule in the southeast.

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