Cobra attack helicopters on Iraq border, anti PKK demo, night pix

Описание: (29 Oct 2007) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
AP Television
Sirnak Province - 29 October 2007
1. Various of Cobra and Super Cobra Helicopters firing at suspected PKK positions on Mount Cudi
2. Helicopter flying overhead
AP Television
Sirnak - 29 October 2007
++DAY SHOTS++
3. Wide of smoke billowing from mountain at border area, helicopters in sky
4. Long view of helicopter
5. Various of smoke in the distance
6. Wide of helicopter
AP Television
Sirnak Province - 29 October 2007
++DAY SHOTS++
7. Clouds of smoke rising out of hillside
AP Television
Ankara - 29 October 2007
++NIGHT SHOTS++
9. Wide of crowds carrying torch lights at parade
10. Mid of torch lights in crowd
11. Crowds marching past camera chanting (Turkish) "Martyrs Never Die and the nation will not be divided!"
12. Young people marching past with flags
13. Pan of people marching past Ataturk's shrine, some chanting (Turkish) "Tayyip (Prime Minister Erdogan's first name) You need to send your son to the military service!"
14. Various of marchers walking and singing
++NIGHT SHOTS++
AP Television
Cizre - 29 October 2007
15. Pan of armoured police vehicle
16. Various of military supply arriving at Cizre
STORYLINE
As Turkey celebrated its 84th anniversary as a republic with massive parades of tanks and other military machinery through the day and grand torchlight marches into the night on Monday, AP Television filmed Turkish Cobra attack helicopters firing rockets into suspected Kurdish rebel positions in mountains near the Iraq border.
"Republic Day" is celebrated every year on 29 October and commemorates the day in 1923 when Turkey became a republic under President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
This year's celebrations come as tension has been building on Turkey's border with northern Iraq.
On Monday, three Cobra attack helicopters fired on suspected rebel positions on Mount Cudi, in Sirnak province.
Later in the evening, AP Television filmed streaks from red tracer bullets crossing through the sky.
After the attack, military transport helicopters flew toward the area, apparently ferrying commandos to the fight.
AP Television also saw a convoy of some 40 military trucks approaching in the evening. It was not possible to confirm whether they were bringing in more troops.
One Turkish soldier was killed in the fighting, the private Dogan news agency reported without citing its sources.
To the east of Mount Cudi in neighbouring Hakkari province, government troops trapped a group of about 100 separatist Kurdish rebels after blocking all escape routes across the frontier, state-run news agency Anatolia reported.
The troops - who have been shelling mountain passages used by the rebels to escape to bases in Iraq - trapped the group of rebels in the Ikiyaka mountains, forcing them to hide in caves, Anatolia reported.
But a Kurdish rebel spokesman told the AP that the report was "baseless."
"There was no fighting in this area between the PKK and the Turkish army," Abdul-Rahman al-Chaderchi said by telephone. "Such allegations are part of the Turkish propaganda against the PKK."
To the northwest, away from the border, a Turkish soldier was killed in Tunceli province after stepping on a land mine believed to have been planted by the rebels, officials said.
The soldier was part of an operation that began Sunday, in which some 8,000 troops have been scouring a central area of the province in ground and helicopter patrols for PKK guerrillas, the private Dogan news agency reported.
Seventeen rebels have been killed in the operation, 15 on Sunday and two on Monday, Dogan reported.

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