Turkish security
forces have killed 5,359 Kurdish militants since the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July, the state-run
Anadolu news agency cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. Erdogan
said 355 soldiers, police officers and village guards have been killed
in the violence, most of it in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast.
Anadolu cited the text of a speech by Erdogan to the Turkish War
Academy.
Turkish security forces kill more than 5,300 militants since July: Erdogan
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