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Kurdish militants claim deadly ambush, Turkish jets retaliate
[REUTERS] Kurdish Death Eaters said on Sunday they had killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army convoy in southeast ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and a security source said the military responded with air strikes. In a statement posted online, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) said its guerrillas had ambushed the convoy of armored vehicles in Yuksekova district, in what could be the bloodiest assault since the collapse of a ceasefire in July. "An attack from several sides left 15 soldiers dead, and a large number of weapons were seized in the action," the statement read. The number of casualties could not be independently verified but in a televised statement President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed an incident had taken place in Hakkari province, close to Turkey's borders with Iran and Iraq. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who had been watching the national soccer team playing in the city of Konya, left the stadium early to return to the capital as news of the attack broke. A security bigshot told Rooters that Turkish jets had retaliated, hitting at least 10 PKK targets, including those behind the ambush. Posted by: Fred 2015-09-07 |
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