PKK urges civilians to evacuate

Aso is a Suleimaniyah-based independent newspaper published three days a week.

PKK urges civilians to evacuate

Aso is a Suleimaniyah-based independent newspaper published three days a week.

Tuesday, 5 September, 2006
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A PKK official has told Aso that Turkey is planning to attack its bases in Qandil and has asked civilians to evacuate the area. Azad Wasu Hassan, the head of Zharawa town, said the PKK had on several occastions spread such news and frightened people, "We don't say there is no danger, but the PKK want to entrench themselves in this area." Two wings of the PKK have urged the Kurdish people and their political parties to take a stand against Turkish and Iranian artillery shelling Iraqi Kurdish border areas.
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