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Turkish planes hit PKK bases after soldier killed in attack
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 03 - 09 - 2015

ISTANBUL — Turkish F-16 warplanes bombed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) firing positions in southeast Turkey on Wednesday after the militants killed a soldier in the area, Turkey's armed forces said.
Clashes between Turkish troops and the militants, who have bases in the mountains of nearby northern Iraq, have become a daily occurrence since a two-year-old ceasefire fell apart last month, leaving peace negotiations in tatters.
PKK fighters armed with rifles opened fire at 7:05 a.m. (0405 GMT) on troops conducting searches on a road in the Semdinli district of Hakkari province, near the borders with Iran and Iraq, the general staff said on its website.
In the ensuing clash, one soldier was killed and two were wounded and flown to hospital. Two F-16 jets then destroyed PKK firing positions in the area, where attack helicopters, drones and military reinforcements were also operating.
Some 70 members of Turkey's security forces have been killed since PKK attacks began in early July. The state-run Anadolu Agency says more than 900 PKK militants have been killed in southeast Turkey and in Iraq since July 22.
The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union, took up arms in 1984, and more than 40,000 people have since been killed.
The violence had halted after Ankara began talks with the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012. There appeared to be progress toward a peace deal, but it was undermined before June's parliamentary election by domestic politics and Kurdish involvement in the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Turkey has also been targeting Daesh (the so-called IS) group and has hit several of the group's bases recently. — Reuters


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