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  • Shepherd finds Stone Age artifacts in Tunceli, eastern Turkey

    10/02/2020 11:52:35 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Daily Sabah ^ | September 16, 2020 | unattributed
    According to archaeologists, a 16-year-old boy who stumbled upon a host of old, stone implements in eastern Turkey has landed upon a find that can cast more light on early human civilization. The young shepherd... contacted archaeologists who were working on a nearby dig in the district of Ovacik, in the eastern province of Tunceli, about a set of strange tools he had discovered. Four days of excavation work in the area revealed remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic periods. Archaeologists say they are the oldest examples of a human settlement in Turkey's northeast region... Research is still underway,...
  • PKK stages suicide attack in E Turkey-sources

    06/23/2007 1:52:10 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 3 replies · 314+ views
    Reuters (excerpt) ^ | June 23, 2007
    Excerpt - TUNCELI, Turkey, June 23 (Reuters) - Two Kurdish militants rammed an oil-filled truck into a Turkish police station on Saturday in a suicide attack, army sources said, marking a sharp escalation of separatist violence. After the explosion other members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attacked the station in the eastern province of Tunceli and the army responded with an operation supported from the air, the sources said. The two militants in the truck were killed but no further details were available on the death toll. ~ snip ~