Kurds Launch Biggest Raid in Turkey Since ’88
Rebel Kurds launched their most deadly attack in two years Sunday night, killing at least 20 civilians in a remote village in southeastern Turkey. The Anatolian News Agency said Monday that at least 20 civilians were killed, and sources in the regional city of Diyarbakir said the toll could reach 26.
The raid on Cevrimli village, 30 miles north of the Iraqi and Syrian borders, showed that the Marxist Kurdish Workers Party is still a potent force despite renewed government efforts to stamp out a six-year insurgency. It was the rebels’ biggest operation since 25 villagers were killed in nearby Mardin province in May, 1988.
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