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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
8 Turkish soldiers killed in blast blamed on PKK
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEight Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the southeast blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the army says.
The attack is the single most deadly strike to be blamed on the PKK since the government began waging a major “anti-terror” campaign against the Kurdish militants last month.
The soldiers were killed when a remote-controlled explosive device laid by militants on a road in the Silvan district of the province of Siirt was detonated, the official Anatolia news agency says.
The army confirms the toll in a statement, blaming the “Separatist Terror Organization,” its customary phrase for the PKK which it never refers to by name.
— AFP
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