Number of attacks in Turkey is growing rapidly

After years of cease-fire flared last summer's conflict between Kurdish fighters and Turkish police and army units in unusually fierce .

The conflict erupted on July 20 when PKK fighters killed a Turkish soldier and two wounded. From that moment, there were regrettable almost daily casualties. After little more than two weeks, all 21 Turkish soldiers and policemen were killed. The authorities also occurred between July 20 and August 8 eleven civilians by the violence.

A week later, the number of deaths among the security forces in the country had risen to 46.The biggest attack up to that point took place on August 19 in the province of Siirt, where one stone eight soldiers were killed when their vehicle was blown up. On 6 September, sixteen soldiers in Hakkari province, where the convoy which they formed part was ambushed. Two days later it was hit again.

Fifteen police officers killed by two bomb attacks, respectively, and Igdir Mardin.De Kurdish fighters declaring their attacks each from attacks by the Turkish army carries on their positions. In particular, the air force is then switched on by the government in Ankara. The authorities counted until Saturday over fifty attacks, which they attribute to the PKK. About the number of victims among the Kurds fewer figures are available.

About twenty of them died in the attacks that they committed since mid-July. The attacks of the Turkish army would certainly dozens of PKK life have gekost.Het number of casualties on both sides is at least several hundred.