Military officer killed in PKK attack in eastern Turkey
Xinhua, July 28, 2015 Adjust font size:
A military officer of the Turkish Gendarmerie was killed in an attack by the rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey on Monday, private Dogan news agency reported.
A group of the PKK militants opened fire against Arslan Kulaksiz, Garrison Commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie, his wife and daughter in Malazgirt town of Mus province when he stopped the car for repair, said the report.
Kulaksiz died later and his wife was lightly injured, the report said.
On Saturday, two soldiers of the Turkish security forces were killed and four others wounded as a truck with bombs exploded against a convoy of Turkish troops on the highway of Diyarbakir province in southeastern Turkey.
On Friday, Turkish F-16 fighters took off from the airbases of Diyarbakir and bombed five targets of PKK camps in northern Iraq.
Turkey launched the retaliatory strikes after a wave of attacks in recent days against its security forces that have been blamed on PKK militants.
The PKK said on Saturday that there was no longer any cease-fire between the Turkish government and the PKK. "The conditions are no longer in place to observe a cease-fire, following the heaviest Turkish airstrikes on our positions in northern Iraq since 2011." Enditem