Unknown gunmen injure 3 soldiers in southwestern Turkey
Three Turkish soldiers have sustained injuries in an armed attack against a military vehicle in the country’s southwest, national media say.
The incident occurred Wednesday in the Beldibi region, west of the resort city of Antalya, along the Mediterranean coast, where their military vehicle was attacked by unidentified gunmen, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported.
No individual or group has yet claimed the responsibility for the attack, but Ankara usually blames militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for conducting such attacks against security forces.
Turkey has been suffering from bombings and clashes with the PKK since July 2015, when the government declared an end to years of efforts for reconciling with the militants and launched a military campaign against them.
The Turkish army has been conducting ground operations as well as airstrikes against PKK positions in the troubled southeastern border region as well as Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region over the past months.
According to the latest toll provided by the state-run Anadolu news agency in July, more than 600 Turkish security forces and over 7,000 PKK militants have been killed since the collapse of the truce. Rights campaigners and Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political parties challenge the figure, saying many civilians have been killed.
Hunt for Daesh terrorists in Istanbul
In another development on Wednesday, Turkish counter-terror police launched raids targeting suspected members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the city of Istanbul.
The dawn raids were carried out after arrest warrants were issued for many suspects. Ankara has so far detained dozens of suspects over financing, recruiting, and providing logistical support to the terror group.
The development comes on the same day that Turkish special forces entered Syrian territory in what they say is an anti-Daesh operations.
Late on Saturday, at least 54 people were killed and dozens more injured in a terrorist attack that took place in a neighborhood of Gaziantep, located in the country’s southeast. The attacker detonated his or her explosives at a wedding ceremony.
Turkish President Erdogan said Daesh was likely behind the attack.
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