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Turkey: Army strikes on Kurdish city leaves citizens only rubble
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RESIDENTS of the Turkish city of Cizre returned yesterday after months of army attacks to find rotting corpses in the rubble of their homes.

Soldiers occupied the majority Kurdish city of 132,000 people last year as part of the offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

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