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PKK issues report on operations and casualties of Turkey clashes

By RUDAW 27/9/2015
The aftermath of riots in the Kurdish city of Dersim. Photo: AFP
The aftermath of riots in the Kurdish city of Dersim. Photo: AFP

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said in a report Sunday that its guerrilla fighters have killed hundreds of Turkish soldiers and police officers in a month of clashes with the Turkish army.

In a special report released Sunday on the latest conflict, the PKK said that from Aug. 25 to Sept. 25 its guerrilla fighters had killed “586 soldiers, policemen, special teams and counter-guerrilla forces, and two Turkish soldiers taken captive,”

The group said that only 48 of its fighters had been killed in clashes with the army or by air strikes.

According to the report, the PKK conducted 385 attacks on the army and police in response to 533 Turkish military operations against the guerrilla group.

It added that five guerrilla fighters were taken captive by the Turkish security forces.

The Turkish government and media outlets however, have reported contradicting numbers of the war casualties.

Army sources said that only 129 soldiers and policemen were killed in two months of fighting while the PKK lost 337 of its guerrillas.

Since the resumption of the conflict 30 civilians are also reported to have been killed in the Kurdish areas of Turkey.

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USA. | 28/9/2015
I hope turkey kill all of the pkk.. So they can leave our land of Kurdistan Iraq. I do t like pkk all they done is causing troubles
Jamal | 28/9/2015
Hahaha..:):) PKK media and North Korea media is the same.....All police and soldiers have been killed by PKK 135 since the 22.th July. 80% of them by roadside mine....PKK casualties between 1200-1400...Most of them by air strikes..
KAKA | 28/9/2015
PKK is lying. hopefully, pkk will be exterminatd. PKK is a cancer on kurdish interests
fred | 28/9/2015
USA shut up and go home please, all yo've done in middle east is killing inocent people for your petrol.
Jaleem | 28/9/2015
How about the Kurds let ISIS walk right into Turkey & Iraq to cut your heads off, maybe then the Turkish bastards would stop bombing them & the Iraqi's would stop complaining
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