On Tuesday, Turkish gendarme units established a checkpoint blocking civilian access to the Cilvegozu border terminal.

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After at first denying any involvement, the five admitted carrying out the undercover deed on orders from the island's chief gendarme.

ECONOMIST: Corsica

Scores of Turkish soldiers and gendarme have been killed this year and many more wounded as part of a recent upsurge in fighting with PKK guerillas.

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