Monday, 7 September 2015

Turkish jets hit PKK targets after Kurdish ambush kills 15 soldiers 

Kurdish militants have said they killed 15 Turkish soldiers in an attack on a convoy of armoured vehicles in south-east Turkey, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July.
The number of casualties could not be independently verified but in a televised statement President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confirmed that an attack had taken place near the village of Dağlica, in Hakkari province, close to Turkey’s borders with Iran and Iraq.
In a statement posted online on Sunday, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) said its guerrillas had ambushed the convoy in Yüksekova district.

 

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