As many as one third of the PKK's fighting force are women - a legacy of the group's one-time Marxist ideology, which prioritised the raising of women's status in Kurdish society. So women casualties are not unusual, but for 15 women to be killed in a single clash certainly is. The Turkish interior ministry is giving few details of the incident. It occurred in Bitlis, a province known for strong PKK support, during a large-scale military operation against the organisation in the mountains bordering Iraq.
PKK多达1/3的武装人员都是妇女,这是该组织一度坚信的马克思主义思想的遗留,该思想将妇女在库尔德社会地位的提高视为头等大事。因此妇女死伤的情况很常见,但15名妇女在同一场冲突中死亡却不寻常。库尔德内政部没有透露这次事件的详情,这件事发生在比特利斯,该省以作为PKK的大本营而知名,冲突发生时,政府在与伊拉克相邻的山区进行大规模的反PKK军事行动。
French police say the older brother of the Islamist gunman Mohammed Merah - who killed Jewish children, a rabbi and soldiers in separate attacks in southwestern France - has expressed pride at his actions. Abdelkader Merah is being questioned by anti-terrorist police in Paris, but they say he's claimed not to have known in advance that Mohammed Merah would carry out the killings. The man's mother was also questioned by police and released without charge. Her lawyer Jean-Yves Gougnaud said she was devastated by what happened.