Twenty PKK terrorists killed

Turkish security forces killed 20 members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a mass operation carried out Monday against the terrorist group in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Cihan news agency reported Today`s Zaman reported.

The helicopter-backed ground operation reportedly conducted by gendarmerie and police special operations teams concentrate on the Görese Mountain located near Diyarbakır's Dicle district. Cihan reported there are nearly 50 PKK members in the region and that the operation is still underway.

Another 10 PKK terrorists were killed in an operation in the same region on Saturday. Police were alerted to the whereabouts of the terrorists after the Diyarbakır provincial gendarmerie office traced telephone numbers that had been saved on a cellular phone belonging to slain PKK terrorist Huseyn Akdogan, who had been killed in a rural area of Dicle last month. They discovered that some 50 PKK members were hiding out in four caves located in Gorese Mountain near the village of Kursunlu.


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