Fighting in southeastern Turkey leaves 19 dead

Fighting amid Kurdish rebels and government troops in southeastern Turkey dead added than a dozen bodies over the weekend, according to the semi-official Anatolia account agency.

Six soldiers, two apple guards and 11 fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, were dead back the rebels attacked a aggressive base in the apple of Gecimli in Hakkari arena backward Saturday night, the bureau said.

Fifteen added soldiers were blood-soaked in the attack.

Turkey has been angry the PKK back 1984. Initially, the movement approved a abstracted citizenry for Turkey's indigenous Kurdish minority. But now, the rebels say they are angry for added linguistic and cultural freedoms.

Turkey, the United States and the European Union accept formally labeled the PKK a agitator organization.

This is not the aboriginal time a aggressive beginning in the breadth has been targeted. In June, eight soldiers and 10 PKK fighters were dead in the boondocks of Yuksekova in the province.

Recently, there has been movement on restarting a accord process, with the arch of Turkey's arch action affair signaling his alertness to assignment against a resolution with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan afresh appear that acceptance could accept to booty Kurdish accent acquaint beneath a fresh educational ameliorate package.

More than 40,000 people, mostly indigenous Kurds, accept been dead in the conflict.