The armed forces said in a separate statement that on Sunday 15
militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been
killed in clashes in Nusaybin and the towns of Sirnak and Lice, also in
the southeast.
Two Turkish soldiers killed, 4 wounded in Kurdish militant attack(BBC)
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded on Monday in an armed attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern Turkish town of Nusaybin near the Syrian border, the armed forces said in a statement.
Security
sources earlier told Reuters that one soldier had been killed and three
wounded in the attack, which they said had involved explosives.
The
armed forces said in a separate statement that on Sunday 15 militants
from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been killed in
clashes in Nusaybin and the towns of Sirnak and Lice, also in the
southeast.
Thousands of militants and hundreds of
civilians and soldiers have been killed since the PKK resumed its
insurgency last summer after a 2-1/2-year ceasefire, shattering a peace
process.
The government has ruled out any return
to the negotiating table and has vowed to crush the PKK, which is
considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey and its Western allies.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict since the PKK took up arms against the state in 1984.
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