Clashes between Turkey, PKK militants leave 3 dead
Three people have been killed in eastern Turkey in separate clashes between Turkish security forces and members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
In a Saturday incident in the Semdinli district of the country's southeastern province of Hakkari near Turkey's borders with Iraq and Iran, one civilian, according to Turkey's security forces, was shot dead and a district official belonging to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) sustained injuries.
The attack happened when the victims refused to stop their car at a roadblock erected by PKK militants, and the militants opened fire on them.
In the town of Cizre, located in southeastern Sirnak Province, two people lost their lives in clashes that erupted between PKK members and the security forces. Many others were reportedly wounded in the incident.
Meanwhile, PKK announced that they have killed 49 Turkish security forces during the past few days in different parts of the country.
“During the past few days, armed confrontations between us and the Turkish military as well as the Turkish police forces resulted in killing 49 Turkish soldiers and policemen throughout the areas of Dersim, Tutwan, Julmirk and Hernakh,” said PKK in a statement cited by the Iraqi News online newspaper.
On Friday, a girl was caught in a crossfire between PKK militants and security forces in the eastern town of Tunceli. She sustained injuries, to which she succumbed. A policeman was also killed in the attack.
Turkey has been launching airstrikes against purported Daesh targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq, after a bomb attack on July 20 left 32 people dead in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc, which lies across the border from the northern Syrian town of Kobani.
A shaky ceasefire that had stood since 2013 was declared null by the PKK following the Turkish airstrikes against the group, narrowing chances of a peace deal in the near future.
The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.
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