"Turkey's PM pledges justice in rare southeast visit
07 May 2006 15:20:37 GMT
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 7 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made a rare visit on Sunday to the mainly Kurdish southeast, where guerrilla violence has escalated, and said Ankara was committed to solving the region's problems.
His visit coincides with an upsurge in violence blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and troop reinforcements being sent to the region to deal with an expected increase in incursions from neighbouring Iraq, where Ankara says thousands of militants are based."
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