Friday, September 21, 2012

BBC News - Turkey's war with PKK reaches new peak

Turkey's war with PKK reaches new peak
By Guney Yildiz BBC Turkish
Turkish soldiers seal off an area after a bus is attacked by the armed PKK rebel group The Turkish army is coming under regular attack

Turkey's conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has escalated rapidly in the past few months, with some of the heaviest fighting in three decades.

It is a remarkable deterioration from a point where unprecedented talks were proceeding less than two years ago.

In a recently published report, the think-tank International Crisis Group said more than 700 people had died in the past 14 months, the highest casualty rate in 13 years.

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