Turkish officials blamed fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for Tuesday's attack, which targeted a bus carrying police working in the Igdir region, at the Dilucu border gate marking the border with Azerbaijan.
Turkey's security forces launched an operation against Kurdish fighters after the attack, the Anatolia state news agency reported.
The attack came two days after at least 16 Turkish troops were killed in an attack on a convoy of armoured vehicles in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
The bombing was claimed by fighters belonging to the outlawed PKK.
The eastern region has witnessed a series of attacks on security targets over the past weeks.
Turkish fighter jets on Monday launched a wave of air strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq just hours after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed to "wipe out" the armed group from its mountain strongholds.
Last month, Turkey announced the start of an air campaign targeting the PKK in northern Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the north of Syria.
The PKK stepped up its attacks in the country in July after a ceasefire between the two sides effectively ended.
The PKK, designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the European Union, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 and tens of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict.
Ankara launched a peace process with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012 and a ceasefire declared by him in 2013 had largely held until hostilities resumed last month.
Source: Al Jazeera And Agencies
8/9/15
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At least 13 policemen killed in PKK attack in eastern Turkey: Report...
ReplyDeleteAt least 13 policemen have been killed after a police bus was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) laid on a road by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the eastern Turkish province of Iğdır.
Doğan News Agency reported on Sept. 8 that the bus was transporting a group of policemen to the Dilucu border gate, which connects Turkey to Azerbaijan’s Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, when it was hit near Hasanköy Village.
Security forces conducted an operation in the region following the attack.
In an earlier incident, a police bus en route to the Dilucu border gate had come under fire from PKK militants on Aug. 27, leading to a clash with special forces. One policeman was wounded in the clash.
The latest PKK attack on security forces came two days after 16 Turkish soldiers were killed in an IED ambush in the southeastern province of Hakkari.
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"Les forces de sécurité turques ont franchi la frontière irakienne dans le cadre du droit de poursuite visant des terroristes du PKK (Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan) qui ont conduit les récentes attaques", a déclaré à l'AFP une source gouvernementale turque s'exprimant sous couvert de l'anonymat.
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ReplyDeletePKK militants have opened fire on a police officer’s car in the eastern province of Tunceli, killing the officer and wounding his daughter.
Kadri Özkara, 55, was driving on the Tunceli-Erzincan road along with his daughter at around 10 a.m. on Sept. 8. While proceeding toward Tunceli, also known as Dersim, Özkara saw armed PKK militants blocking the road and attempted to escape the road block.
Militants opened fire on the car, badly injuring Özkara. The officer was taken to Tunceli State Hospital but later succumbed to his injuries.
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