PKK kidnaps 3 Turkish journalists in southeastern Turkey
Xinhua, February 21, 2016 Adjust font size:
Rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) on Sunday kidnapped three journalists from Turkey's Anatolia News Agency in southeastern Turkey, private Dogan news agency reported.
A group of PKK militants kidnapped the three reporters in Nusaybin town of Mardin province bordering Syria, according to the report.
The three experienced reporters, who are also said to have been trained in war combat reporting, were reportedly working in Mardin province at the time of their kidnapping, said the report.
On Wednesday, 28 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a deadly bombing attack in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
Turkey's southeast has seen the worst violence in two decades since a 2013 cease-fire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July 2015, reviving a conflict that had killed 40,000 people since 1984.
The truce fell apart in the wake of a suicide bomb attack in the border town of Suruc in Sanliurfa Province, which killed 34 pro-Kurdish and left-wing activists.
More than 260 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed since July 2015 in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Endit