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Diyabakir Province
Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday in an ambush during a military operation in the town of Silvan, in the province of Diyarbakir, in the southeastern part of the country.
Their funeral was planned by authorities on Friday, and the NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed his deepest condolences to the families of those killed in what he deemed in a statement as “terrorist heinous attack” with “no justification.”
Rasmussen added that NATO stood in full solidarity with Turkey, which is a member of the transcontinental military bloc, in the fight against terrorism.
The government blames the attacks on PKK, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a separatist movement Turkey, United States and other states regard as terrorist. The military says that the troops were ambushed by PKK insurgents, and a fight broke out.
The thirteen are reported to have died as a result of a fire started by hand grenades thrown in a forest. Seven Kurds were also killed, and seven more Turkish soldiers were hurt by the fire, two very seriously.
Turkish Soldiers
Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with other ministers and military chiefs in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, and decided to create a task force to investigate the case.
President Abdullah Gul said that this terrorist attack comes at a time when human rights and freedoms grow in Turkey, and brotherhood and peace are gaining strength.
The attack comes at a time when the U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton is starting a world diplomatic tour, with Turkey as first destination.
Map of Turkey
Clinton arrived in Istanbul on Thursday, and took the opportunity to state the United States stands with Turkey in their struggle against a designated terrorist organization.
30,000 people lost their lives since the 1980s in this Turkish province which has a large Kurd population.
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