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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (129441)	4/17/2004 12:33:03 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Respond to of 281500

And Turn It Over To Kurdish Terrorists? Are you saying terrorism should be rewarded? Thanks in advance for your thoughtful reply....... KC 17 Turkish Soldiers And Government-Paid Militias killed in Northern Kurdistan SULEIMANIYA, (Southern Kurdistan), April 16 (AFP) The Kurdistan People's Congress (KONGRA-GEL) said on Friday that its fighters had killed 10 Turkish soldiers and seven of Ankara's Kurdish allies during continuing fighting in the past few days in the Sirnak mountains close to the Turkish-Iraqi border. "The Turkish attack started April 6 in Sirnak where our forces are deployed, and fighting continues until now," Zubair Idar, an official from the former PKK party in this ethnic Kurdish city in northern Iraq, told AFP. "During fighting, 10 Turkish troops, including an officer, and seven Kurdish mercenaries as well as one of our combatants were killed," he said. On Thursday, a local source in Diyarbakir, the main Turkish city in the region, said five Kurdish rebels from Turkey and three soldiers were killed during a large sweep in southeast Turkey. Ten soldiers and "village guards" -- Kurdish militiamen armed by the Turkish state -- were wounded. The operation, led by 6,000 security forces backed by helicopters, started four days ago after a group of 60 PKK rebels infiltrated Turkey from northern Iraq. The Kurdish rebellion, which claimed 36,000 lives, has been nearly frozen since the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was arrested in 1999. KONGRA-GEL, which was founded last November, is an offshoot of the PKK.