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14 killed in clashes in southeast Turkey

 Riot police officers stand as members of Turkey Youth Union shout anti-US slogans as they protest against the upcoming visit of the US President Barack Obama to Turkey mid-November for G20 summit in Antalya, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov

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Fri, November 13, 2015 Published on Nov. 13, 2015 Published on 2015-11-13T21:50:51+07:00

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Riot police officers stand as members of Turkey Youth Union shout anti-US slogans as they protest against the upcoming visit of the US President Barack Obama to Turkey mid-November for G20 summit in Antalya, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 8, 2015. (AP/Emrah Gurel) Riot police officers stand as members of Turkey Youth Union shout anti-US slogans as they protest against the upcoming visit of the US President Barack Obama to Turkey mid-November for G20 summit in Antalya, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 8, 2015. (AP/Emrah Gurel) (AP/Emrah Gurel)

 Riot police officers stand as members of Turkey Youth Union shout anti-US slogans as they protest against the upcoming visit of the US President Barack Obama to Turkey mid-November for G20 summit in Antalya, outside the US consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 8, 2015. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Officials say 14 people have in clashes between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces days before a G-20 summit in Turkey.

The regional governor's office said Friday that Turkish security forces killed 11 Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, fighters in clashes in the mainly Kurdish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq.

The rebels detonated a bomb on a road in the town of Lice, killing two soldiers. Another soldier died in a clash in Van province.

On Friday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to press ahead with anti-PKK operations in the town of Silvan, where authorities have imposed a curfew in three districts for the past 11 days. Turkey's Human Rights Association says two security force members and seven civilians have died there since Nov. 3.

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