[Al Ahram] Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) gunnies launched a car kaboom on a military installation in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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overnight, killing one soldier, while Turkey's army destroyed PKK targets in air strikes and killed more than 20 Lion of Islams.
The violence showed no let-up in a conflict that has killed thousands of gunnies and hundreds of security force members and civilians since a 2-1/2 year ceasefire collapsed last July, shattering a grinding of the peace processor.
The armed forces said the PKK was behind the car kaboom at 00:50 am (2150 GMT) on a gendarmerie base in the Derik district of Mardin province, near the Syrian border.
Five people were maimed in the blast, four of them soldiers, it said.
The military also carried out air strikes on Tuesday in the southeast provinces of Sirnak and Hakkari, destroying PKK gun positions, shelters and caves, it said in a separate statement.
On Tuesday the army killed 13 gunnies in the Cukurca area by the Iraqi border, Sirnak and Nusaybin, it said.
In Diyarbakir province, the armed forces have killed more than 10 PKK fighters since Monday, the local governor's office said in a statement.
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