Eight Turkish soldiers killed in suspected PKK attack The bomb exploded Wednesday on a highway in the mainly Kurdish province of Siirt as the military vehicle was passing by, the Anadolu news agency reported. The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces. Dozens of people, most of them police and soldiers, have been killed in such attacks since July. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week that Turkey would continue its campaign against the PKK militants "until **t one terrorist remains" after the group claimed responsibility for the bombing of a police station in Istanbul. "We will continue our fight until ******* are laid down ... and **t one single terrorist remains within our borders," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Ankara. His comments came as the Turkish military ratcheted up pressure on Kurdish militants with a fresh round of air strikes in the southeast of the country. The mounting violence has all but ended a peace process between Turkey and the PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish auto**my. "For us there is ** difference between terrorist organisations. Whatever their purpose is, for us a terrorist organisation is a terrorist organisation,” Erdogan said. (FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and REUTERS)
08-19-2015, 11:48 PM
Eight Turkish soldiers killed in suspected PKK attack
The bomb exploded Wednesday on a highway in the mainly Kurdish province of Siirt as the military vehicle was passing by, the Anadolu news agency reported. The attack comes amid renewed violence between the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces. Dozens of people, most of them police and soldiers, have been killed in such attacks since July. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last week that Turkey would continue its campaign against the PKK militants "until **t one terrorist remains" after the group claimed responsibility for the bombing of a police station in Istanbul. "We will continue our fight until ******* are laid down ... and **t one single terrorist remains within our borders," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Ankara. His comments came as the Turkish military ratcheted up pressure on Kurdish militants with a fresh round of air strikes in the southeast of the country. The mounting violence has all but ended a peace process between Turkey and the PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish auto**my. "For us there is ** difference between terrorist organisations. Whatever their purpose is, for us a terrorist organisation is a terrorist organisation,” Erdogan said. (FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP and REUTERS)
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