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14 killed in clashes in southeast Turkey

14 killed in clashes in southeast Turkey

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

An imam leads prayers as Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, Land Forces Commander Salih Zeki Colak, the main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and other officials attend funeral prayers for Lt. Col. Ihsan Ejdar, 43, a Turkish army officer killed in a Kurdish rebel attack at Turkey-Iraq border on Saturday, at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. Terrorism and the violence has rocked southeastern Turkey since the resumption of fighting between the military and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The separatist group is considered a terror organization by the Turkey, the U.S. and the EU. Photo: AP

ANKARA: Officials say 14 people have in clashes between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces days before a G-20 summit in Turkey. The regional governor's office said Friday that Turkish security forces killed 11 Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, fighters in clashes in the mainly Kurdish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq. The rebels detonated a bomb on a road in the town of Lice, killing two soldiers. Another soldier died in a clash in Van province. On Friday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to press ahead with anti-PKK operations in the town of Silvan, where authorities have imposed a curfew in three districts for the past 11 days. Turkey's Human Rights Association says two security force members and seven civilians have died there since Nov. 3.