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Turkey reports heavy PKK losses after week of bombing.
Date: 8/23/2011 8:05:23 AM Sender: CDP
Turkey reports heavy PKK losses after week of bombing.

The Turkish army says it has killed up to 100 Kurdish rebels in a week of air and artillery strikes on suspected PKK bases in northern Iraq.

A statement on the army website said that, according to its estimates, between 90 and 100 were killed and more than 80 wounded.

The PKK has confirmed three deaths, while local reports say a family of seven were killed by the bombing.

Turkey began the strikes after deadly PKK attacks on its soldiers.

Carried out between 17 and 22 August, they are believed to be the first major strikes on rebel bases in northern Iraq in over a year.

They came shortly after PKK fighters ambushed a troop convoy last Wednesday, killing nine soldiers and injuring 14.

The PKK launched its armed insurrection in the Turkish south-east in 1984. At least 40,000 people have been killed since then.

The group is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and the US.

Hopes of negotiations raised before the recent Turkish general election appear to have been dashed by the upsurge in fighting.

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