The explosion Thursday targeted a military vehicle that was returning from an operation in the mainly-Kurdish province of Bitlis.
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More than 600 members of the Turkish security forces have been killed in PKK attacks since a two-and-a-half-year ceasefire collapsed in 2015, according to Turkish officials.
Three soldiers were killed and six others were wounded when a bomb hit a military vehicle in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, in the third attack on Turkish security forces in 24 hours that officials are blaming on Kurdish rebels. Two civilians and four police officers were among the dead.
“Once again, the attacks in Van and Elazig show how PKK and FETO work together”.
“The terrorist organization won’t find the right to live anywhere. There is no doubt about it”, he told reporters.
At least three policemen were killed and another 146 people including civilians injured in auto bomb attack on a police headquarters in in eastern Turkey’s province of Elazig.
Turkey has been the target of numerous attacks by the PKK militant outfit.
Turkish police investigate a car-bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig.
The PKK has carried a number of bombings targeting the cops in the mainly Kurdish south east a year ago since a ceasefire with the government broke down.
He further added that the Syrian Kurdish self-defense units YPG threatened Turkey’s security, warning that “if need be, we will be engaging in the struggle” in the Arab republic. Turkey and its allies characterize the PKK, which began fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey in 1984, a terrorist organization.
Tens of thousands have been killed in the conflict.
“The (Gulen movement) has lost its assertiveness and has handed over the duty to the (PKK)”, Yildirim said.
In remarks made during Anadolu Agency’s Editor’s Desk meeting in Ankara, Isik said: “They were going to escape from the Akincilar airbase” using three CASA aircraft.
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Turkey has vowed to continue its campaign against the PKK in the eastern part of the country, despite its ongoing purge of the military.
