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Report: PKK calls off ceasefire in Turkey

28 February 2011 [17:45] - TODAY.AZ
More than 40,000 people have died in the violence since the PKK took up arms in 1984.
PKK militants called off a six-month ceasefire on Monday, Reuters news agency said, citing a report on website close to the militants, threatening a fragile peace in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast ahead of a June election.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), waging a decades-long bloody campaign against the Turkish state, "will not attack Turkish targets" but will take a more effective "defensive" posture, according to a statement from the PKK carried by the Firat News Agency.

No one from the PKK, whose leadership is based in northern Iraq, was immediately available to confirm the report.

The PKK declared a one-sided truce in August and later extended it until the general election, now set for June 12, to give the government space to resolve the conflict, it said.

More than 40,000 people have died in the violence since the PKK took up arms in 1984.


/World Bulletin/
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