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    March 24, 2012

Turkish Forces Kill 15 Women Kurd Rebels

   VOA News

   Turkish officials say security forces killed 15 rebel Kurds, all of
   them women, during clashes Saturday in the country's southeast.
   The Interior Ministry says the fighting between security forces and
   members of the Turkish rebel group the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or
   PKK, took place in a rural part of the mainly Kurdish province of
   Bitlis. The ministry says a local guard was also killed.
   The PKK, listed by Turkey and many other members of the international
   community as a terrorist group, took up arms against the government in
   1984 in its fight for autonomy in the country's southeast. The 28-year
   conflict has claimed more than 40,000 lives.

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