500 Rebels Killed By Turky

Turkey claims 500 rebels killed in Kurdish campaign 

 

Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Photo: AFP

1:14PM BST 17 Sep 2012

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 123 of the rebels were killed over the past 10 days in an ongoing military operation in the southeastern city of Hakkari, near the border with Iraq and the site of frequent clashes between the separatists and government forces.

In all, about 500 "terrorists" had been "rendered ineffective", the prime minister said in televised remarks.

The recent toll comes after an army announcement earlier this month, which said that close to 500 people, mostly Kurdish, had been killed in operations over six months between February and August.

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