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TUNCELI, Turkey, April19 (Reuter) - Turkish security forces have killed 135
Kurdish guerrillas in a 10-day-old offensive against the rebels in the mountainous
east of the country, military officials said.
The toll includes 42 dead announced on Tuesday, the officials said. Ten rebels
had been captured alive, they told reporters in T unceli province, where the airbacked
operation is taking place. .
One soldier has been killed and four injured in the fighting so far, the officials
said. .
More than 22,000 people have died in the PKK's 12-year-old fight for self-rule
in the southeast of the country.
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BONN, April19 (Reuter) - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said on
Saturday Bonn was taking seriously threats by a radical Islamic group in Iran to
unleash suicide attacks against Germany but assured Germans they were safe.
Kinkel's remarks were quoted in a ministry statement a day after the leader of
hardline Ansar-e Hizbollah said his followers were ready to die as martyrs against
Germany if ordered by Iran's supreme leader.
Iranian officials have said they are committed to protecting foreign residents
and Kinkel said he had no reason to doubt the 530 Germans in Iran were safe.
"Of course we are taking the latest threats by the extremist Ansar-e Hizbollah to
unleash suicide commandos seriously," Kinkel was quoted as saying.
"At the same time, no-one in Germany has anything to fear since these suicide
commandos apparently only act on orders from the (Iranian) government," he said.
The suicide threats came amid a diplomatic row sparked by a Berlin court verdict
that jailed an Iranian and three Lebanese for the murder of Kurdish dissidents and
accused Tehran of ordering the killings.
The Berlin verdict not only prompted official protest from Iran's leadership but
also unleashed a wave of protests in Tehran where thousands of people took to the
streets and fundamentalist students tried to storm the German embassy.
The court said Iranian leaders, including the state president and the religious
.leader,. had ordered the killings. But it only mentioned Intelligence Minister Ali
Fallahiyan by name. Iran has repeatedly denied all involvement.
The verdict was the first time a European court had clearly attributed political
responsibility for any of the dozens of assassinations of Iranian opposition figures
abroad since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.
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