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Turkish soldiers, Kurdish rebels clash leaving 19 dead
Soldiers, village guards and Kurdish rebels among 19 people killed in Turkey southeast fighting.
19 dead, further 15 soldiers wounded in attack
19 people were killed in fighting between Turkish soldiers and outlawed Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country.
According to the Anatolia news agency, six soldiers, two village guards and 11 Kurdish rebels were killed following an overnight rebel attack on an army post in the province that borders Iraq.
Another 15 soldiers were wounded.
Orhan Alimoglu, the governor for Hakkari province says six soldiers, gave no other detail, but private NTV television said the rebels fired on the outpost in Hakkari with rocket launchers just after midnight.
The station said the military sent reinforcements and jets were bombing the rebels' escape routes.The rebels belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, are fighting for autonomy in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast. The fighting has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984.
