"Ankara on High Alert As 13 Killed in Clashes
Friday, 15 July 2011
Thirteen soldiers were killed and seven wounded in an ambush in Diyarbakır’s Silvan district, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday. Alarmed by the news, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan canceled all of his programs and called for an emergency security meeting in his office in Ankara. Beşir Atalay, deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs, Gen. Işık Koşaner, the chief of General Staff, Hakan Fidaner, the head of the National Intelligence Organization, and Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin joined the emergency meeting as Turkish Air Force jets started air operations in the region of the clash in Southeast Turkey."
More:Ankara on High Alert As 13 Killed in Clashes, 15 July 2011 Friday 9:18
