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| Security Sources: Five Dead in PKK Attacks in Turkey |
| 2015-11-12 |
| [AnNahar] Three Turkish coppers, a civilian and a soldier have been killed in new attacks in the restive southeast blamed on fighters from the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), security sources said Wednesday. The coppers were killed and another was maimed late Tuesday when they came under fire from rockets and automatic rifles while patrolling the largely Kurdish town of Silopi near the Syrian border, the sources told Agence La Belle France Presse. In the flashpoint town of Silvan, which has been under a strict curfew for nine days, one soldier was killed and another maimed in fierce street fighting with the youth wing of the outlawed PKK on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, rebels detonated a boom-mobile on a road in Dargecit in Mardin province as a police convoy was passing, killing a municipal employee and wounding a police officer, Dogan news agency said. PKK continues attacks in southeast Turkey [Rudaw] At least three Turkish soldiers were killed and one injured when the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) attacked a Turkish military convoy in the town of Silopi in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's southeastern Sirank province, Turkish media reported Tuesday. A Turkish army vehicle was carrying soldiers in a military operation in Silopi when the PKK fighters detonated a remote-controlled bomb at the side of the road. Authorities have declared a curfew in the town as security forces battle the PKK. |
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