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| Eight Turkish Soldiers Killed in PKK Bombing in Southeast |
| 2015-08-20 |
| [AnNahar] Eight Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday in the deadliest attack by Kurdish faceless myrmidons since the government began an anti-terror offensive last month, as the country battles its most serious security and political crises in years. An honor guard on duty outside the fabled Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul was also attacked by suspected Marxist Lion of Islams, with the country on edge after a wave of attacks in the last month. The eight soldiers were killed by remote-controlled bomb laid by faceless myrmidons on a road in the Silvan district of the province of Siirt, the army said. The army blamed the "Separatist Terror Organization", its customary phrase for the PKK which it never refers to by name. Seven soldiers were also maimed in the attack and military helicopters and ambulances were dispatched to the area, the official Anatolia news agency said, adding that the festivities between the faceless myrmidons and soldiers were continuing. Including the latest fatalities, around 50 members of the security forces have been killed in attacks blamed on the PKK over the past month, although Wednesday's strike was by far the deadliest single incident. The military in the last days has refrained from air strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq that were a hallmark of the campaign so far but launched large-scale operations on PKK strongholds in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Two faceless myrmidons earlier Wednesday launched an attack with guns and explosives on the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, one of Turkey's main tourist attractions which also houses offices of Davutoglu, the Istanbul authorities said. The two attackers -- carrying two hand grenades, an automatic rifle, a gun and other ammunition -- were caught by police, the statement said, adding that there were no fatalities. One policeman was reported to have been lightly maimed. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Anatolia said that the suspects were members of the radical left wing Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKP-C). The DHKP-C claimed a similar attack on the Dolmabahce Palace on January 1 where two grenades were hurled at the guards which failed to explode. |
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