Two Soldiers Killed in Rebel Violence
Two Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a military vehicle in southeastern Turkey, and the leader of a pro-Kurdish party urged rebels to halt an escalating campaign of violence.
Kurdish rebels set off a remote-controlled explosive device on a road in Tunceli province, about 400 miles east of the capital, Ankara, during a routine military patrol, the news agency Anatolian reported. A third soldier was injured.
In Ankara, Tuncer Bakirhan, leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People’s Party, said he had sent a letter to Zubeyir Aydar, the chief of the outlawed rebel group, calling for a return to the cease-fire.
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