Kurdish rebels attacked two military vehicles in a deadly attack in southeast Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.
“It was an attack on armoured vehicles with land mines,” Erdogan said. “The information from our chief of general staff is very saddening.”
The military did not specify a death toll in a statement about the attack on its website, but the PKK claimed to have killed 15 Turkish soldiers.
Erdogan said in a television interview that the two armoured military vehicles were targeted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party near the village of Daglica in Hakkari province, bordering Iraq and Iran.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu cut short a visit to the city of Konya to convene a security meeting following the attack.
The renewed fighting between the PKK and the security forces has killed about 200 people since July, including around 70 soldiers and police officers. The fresh unrest has derailed a 2½-year-old peace process with the Kurds.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS and AP)
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7/9/15
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