ANKARA (AP) - Turkish troops killed three Kurdish guerrillas yesterday and one soldier was killed in fighting in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast, the Anatolia news agency reported. Troops chasing rebels belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, killed one Kurdish guerrilla in fighting near the town of Pervari, in southeastern Siirt province, Anatolia said. One soldier was also killed in the fighting, it said. The troops killed two more Kurdish guerrillas in a separate clash near the town of Cukurca in Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Anatolia said. Also yesterday, the main pro-Kurdish political party said that Turkish security forces have raided several of its offices and detained dozens of its members over the past few weeks.

SOFIA (AP) - Parliament yesterday debated a no-confidence motion filed by the opposition against the Socialist-led government, accusing it of corruption and of failing to cope with the consequences of recent floods in Bulgaria. The coalition government, which has a comfortable majority in Parliament, was expected to survive the vote, scheduled for today. Coalition lawmakers dismissed all allegations of corruption, and said there were no grounds for the no-confidence motion. “Human tragedy caused by a natural disaster cannot be a political argument for a no-confidence motion,” said Lutfi Mestan, deputy chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a junior coalition partner.

A group of Albanian deputies demanded yesterday that the country’s prosecutor-general be dismissed following allegations that he failed to fight crime. Twenty-eight lawmakers of Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s governing Democratic Party said they would ask the 140-member Parliament to begin the process to remove Theodhori Sollaku from the post. They submitted their request to Parliament Speaker Jozefina Topalli yesterday. A parliamentary investigative committee will be created, made up of both ruling-party and opposition lawmakers, said Bamir Topi, head of the Democrats’ parliamentary group. Sollaku will be given the opportunity to defend himself. The deputies claimed that Sollaku’s work was inadequate and had turned “organized crime, human trafficking, exploitation and organization of prostitution, drug production and distribution into a threat to national security.” (AP)