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Turkey’s president has held an emergency security meeting to discuss how to rein in violence in the country’s mainly Kurdish south-east.
Eleven soldiers were killed over the weekend in an attack by the banned Kurdish Workers Party, the PKK. Recent weeks have seen a sharp increase in armed clashes between the PKK and the Turkish military.
Jonathan Head reports.
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