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               Turkish Fighter Jets Bomb Kurdish Rebels, Kill 10

   by Associated Press

   Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish fighter jets have killed 10
   Kurdish rebels during bombing runs in the country's southeast.

   Citing a military source, the Anadolu Agency said Wednesday that the
   Monday air raids targeted the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari, which
   borders with Iraq.

   The Turkish military is engaged in renewed conflict with rebels linked
   to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. Ankara and its Western allies
   consider the PKK a terrorist organization. A tenuous cease-fire between
   the two camps ended last summer.

   Since then thousands of people have been killed, including 450 Turkish
   security forces, in violence that has devastated mainly Kurdish
   districts.

   Turkish fighter jets periodically bomb Kurdish rebels in the southeast
   and in northern Iraq. Kurdish militants have claimed responsibility for
   multiple attacks in Turkey.

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