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Twenty-two dead as Kurdish rebels attack soldiers in Turkey

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05-08-2012 | 05:57

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At least 22 were killed after the rebels attacked military outposts in southeast Turkey, security sources said on Sunday.

Another 16 soldiers and six civilians were wounded in the simultaneous attacks overnight on the three bases on the outskirts of the town of Cukurca in Hakkari province, which borders Iraq, said the sources who declined to be named.

Clashes between the military and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have intensified in recent weeks in a conflict that has dragged on for 28 years and claimed 40,000 mainly Kurdish lives.

Some analysts in Turkey warn of a widening conflict after Kurds in northern Syria, some of whom are aligned with the PKK, assert themselves amid a power vacuum as President Bashar al-Assad's troops crack down on rebels elsewhere in the country.

Syrian forces have been trying to put down a 17-month popular uprising, and more than 18,000 people have died.

Millions of ethnic Kurds live in mostly adjoining areas in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.

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