Eight more PKK militants die in restive southeast Turkey
At least eight members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in a Turkish military operation in the restive southeastern part of the country.
Turkish officials said on Tuesday that the PKK militants had been killed in the Kurdish-populated city of Yuksekova in Hakkari Province, located 1,026 kilometers (638 miles) east of the capital, Ankara, earlier in the day.
The authorities added that three members of the Turkish security forces were also wounded during the offensive.
The development came a day after Turkish military troopers killed 12 PKK members in the same district.
Turkey has been engaged in one of its biggest military operations in the southern border region in the recent past. The Turkish military has been conducting offensives against the alleged positions of the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in northern Syria as well as those of the PKK in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey.
The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 20 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc, an ethnically Kurdish town located close to the Kurdish town of Kobani on the other side of the border in Syria, where over 30 people died. The Turkish government blamed Daesh for the bombing.
According to a tally conducted by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency, a total of 145 Turkish soldiers and police officers have been killed since July 7 in armed attacks blamed on the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey.
On October 10, twin explosions targeted a number of activists who had convened outside Ankara’s main train station for a peace rally organized by leftist and pro-Kurdish opposition groups. The Turkish government says 97 died in the Ankara bombings; the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), however, puts the death toll at 128.
Following the attack, the PKK has called on its members to halt militant activities in Turkey in honor of the victims of the Ankara bombings unless they are threatened by an attack. The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s.
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