content tagged with PKK attacks

President Gül announced "revenge" in a statement on the PKK attacks on 19 October that caused the death of 24 soldiers. The General Staff Presidency launched a large-scale air-land operations in the region. The Turkish people want the fighting to stop once and for all.

A soldier and two village guards were killed in armed conflicts with the PKK in Van. An attack on a police team in Diyarbakır left one police officer dead. A total of twelve people died in armed clashes within the past four days.

On the 16. anniversary of the deadly bomb attack by PKK militants when prominent writer Onat Kutlar and archeologist Yasemin Cebenoyan lost their lives, relatives urged the PKK apologize: "We may only forgive should the guilty apologise," said Mumcu of the Social Memory Platform. "We are not here for revenge."

Perrier, Vigoureux and de Banville, theree French journalists who were detained during border pass have been released, but their camera is seized as "instrument of crime".

According to the IHD in Bursa, Kurdish citizens have become the targets of attacks since 12 soldiers in Hakkari were killed on Sunday. At least six people have been injured.

Yesterday, two French journalists were arrested at a Turkish border gate with Northern Iraq after they refused to show their film material to officials.

Political parties of the left and the Union of Turkish Chambers of Mechanical Engineers have called on the PKK to lay down arms and on Turkey to take urgent steps towards democratisation.