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         Turkey's PKK Militants Claim Responsibility for Deadly Attack

   by VOA News

   Militants from Turkey's Kurdistan Workers Party have claimed
   responsibility for Wednesday's deadly attack on a police station in
   southeastern Mardin province that left six people dead.

   "A major suicide attack was carried out on the police headquarters of
   the fascist state forces in Midyat town of Mardin [province] by our
   comrade," the PKK said in a statement posted to its website.

   The attack in the mainly Kurdish town of Midyat left more than 30
   people wounded.

   The PKK has been targeting Turkish police and military in its struggle
   for autonomy in Turkey's southeast since the collapse of a cease-fire
   agreement nearly a year ago.

   An estimated 500 Turkish security personnel have been killed while
   fighting with the Kurdish rebels, according to the military, which
   claims to have killed up to 4,900 PKK militants in Turkey and northern
   Iraq.

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