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Two policemen killed in attack in Turkey

13 May 2011 [11:08] - TODAY.AZ
Two police officers killed by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in an attack on a police station in southeast Turkey were laid to rest Thursday.

Gökmen Şimşek and Muharrem ünlü, who were killed Wednesday, were laid to rest in their hometowns Edirne and Çorum, respectively.

Interior Minster Osman Güneş said the perpetrators of the attack would soon be caught.

A group of militants fired machine guns at police outside a station in Silopi, near the border with Iraq, on Wednesday, killing one officer and critically wounding another, a security official said.

The wounded officer was rushed to a hospital in Diyarbakır, before succumbing to his injuries early on Thursday, a hospital source said.

"We have launched operations to find the attackers," Güneş told reporters in Ankara. "I am ashamed to call these traitors human, those who hope for help from violence are creatures that only look human. Turkey is a strong country, we will continue to fight against them just like we have dome so far."


/Hurriyet Daily News/
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