Three Turkish troops injured in suspected PKK attack
At least three Turkish troops have been injured in an attack by suspected members of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the troubled southeastern Turkey.
Latest media reports said that the ambush took place in the Hani district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province on Friday.
The injured soldiers were rushed to a nearby hospital following the incident.
Turkish forces have reportedly launched a massive manhunt across the region to apprehend the suspects.
Several Turkish troops have also been injured during a series of attacks by suspected PKK members in eastern provinces of Agri and Erzurum over the past 48 hours.
The latest ambush came after two police officers were killed in an attack on a police station in the Pozanti district of the southern province of Adana in the early hours of Friday. Two of the assailants involved in the attack were also killed when police returned fire.
Also on Thursday, a Turkish State Railways worker was killed and another wounded in a bomb explosion near the Sarikamis district of the eastern province of Kars. The bomb had been planted on rail tracks.
Senior Turkish officials blame the PKK for the recent wave of attacks on Kurdistan.
Clashes between the government forces and the PKK have intensified after Ankara kicked off an aerial campaign against the group’s positions in neighboring Iraq.
Turkey launched the airstrikes against purported positions by ISIL Takfiri militants in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq after an ISIL bomb attack killed 32 people in the Turkish southwestern town of Suruç, across the border from the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani.
The PKK, which seeks to gain self-rule, has been engaged in militancy in southeastern Turkey for decades.
A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared as null by the PKK following the Turkish airstrikes against the group last week, narrowing chances of the two sides reaching a deal in the near future.
Meanwhile, the Turkish pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party slammed the military action by Ankara as being nothing but a “show,” accusing the government of using the campaign as a “cover” to target the PKK.
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