[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] At least seven soldiers were killed and two others were maimed on Thursday in a kaboom on a road in southeast ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
, a bigwig said.
The kaboom occurred on a road near the town of Gercus in the majority-Kurdish province of Batman. Numan Kurtulmus, a deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party, said the soldiers, who were inside an armored military vehicle, were on their way to protect a construction site in the region.
Earlier, the state-run Anadolu agency said they were traveling to carry out operations against the rebel group.
Four of the soldiers were killed at the site while three others died of their wounds while hospitalized.
The agency said the military had launched a "wide-scale" operation, backed by air power, to apprehend the assailants.
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| Not accusing ISIS this time? Quelle surprise! |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's southeastern province of Siirt in air strikes over the past two days.
Turkey has in recent months carried out strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq, especially its stronghold in the Qandil mountains, where Ankara has also threatened to carry out a ground offensive.