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| Turkish army: 4 soldiers and 17 PKK guerrillas killed | |
| 2015-10-19 | |
"On Saturday, the PKK fighters launched an attack on Turkish troops in the Daglica village of Hakkari's Yuksekova district, killing four Turkish soldiers and wounding five," the military said in a statement. One of the soldiers killed was Lt. Col. Ihsan Ejdar, the commander of the battalion conducting the operations in the area, according to the Hurriyet Daily News. Since late July, Turkish warplanes have been launching blistering attacks on PKK camps in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's own Kurdish southeast. The fighting shattered a 2013 fragile peace deal between Turkish authorities and PKK forces. Army sources have said that only 129 soldiers and coppers were killed in two months of fighting while the PKK lost 337 of its guerrillas. Clashes continue as the country prepares to hold general elections on November 1, following an inconclusive poll in June, after which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to muster the seats to form a new government in 45 days. Roadside bomb kills 2 soldiers in Turkey's southeast: Sources [AlAhram] Two Turkish soldiers were killed when a roadside kaboom hit their vehicle in the province of Tunceli, security sources said on Sunday, bringing the military corpse count in two days of violence in the predominantly Kurdish east to six. The sources said a fourth soldier had died of his wounds following festivities on Saturday with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) forces of Evil in the province of Hakkari, southeast of Tunceli near the borders with Iran and Iraq. | |
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