Turkey mourns 24 slain soldiers
Thousands of high school students marched in the streets of the Turkish capital yesterday to denounce the killing of 24 soldiers by Kurdish rebels, and the military pressed ahead with its air and ground offensive against the insurgents across the Iraqi border.
Turkey began the offensive against the Kurdish rebels on Wednesday after they conducted their deadly attacks on military and police targets along the border.
Turkish news reports, without citing sources, said more than 20 Kurdish rebels have been killed in the offensive. But Dostdar Hamo, a spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party in northern Iraq, told The Associated Press by telephone yesterday that only five rebels have been killed and seven others wounded since the start of the Turkish campaign. The figures given by either side cannot be independently verified.
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