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The Grand Turk
3 Turkish Soldiers Killed in PKK Attacks in Iraq, Turkey
2018-02-02
[AnNahar] Three Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday in two separate attacks by Kurdish gunnies in northern Iraq and in southeastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, the military said.

Two other soldiers were maimed after the attack by the "separatist terrorist organization" -- Turkey's official term for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the army said in a statement.

The PKK is blacklisted as a terror organization by Ankara and its Western allies.

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 in an earlier attack, one soldier was killed and five were maimed after an attack near a military base in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province.

Earlier Ottoman Turkish media reported two Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack in Hakkari's Semdinli district -- which appeared to be a separate incident -- blamed on the PKK launching a missile from northern Iraq. But the army did not refer to this attack in its statements.

The deaths come a day after the army said one Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed in an attack in the eastern province of Agri.

Following the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in 2015, fighting has intensified between Ottoman Turkish security forces and the PKK in the southeast.

The Ottoman Turkish military regularly conducts air raids against PKK gunnies who have bases in the Qandil mountain area of Iraq.

Ottoman Turkish ground troops also sometimes stage incursions into the area.

Ankara on January 20 launched a cross-border operation in northern Syria against a Syrian Kurdish militia which Ankara says is a "terrorist" offshoot of the PKK.
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