Kurdish militants killed ten soldiers and wounded more than 60 others in an attack on a Turkish army convoy on Tuesday.
Security sources quoted by the Reuters news agency attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
The convoy was travelling on a motorway between the provinces of Bingol and Mus when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
The PKK is an armed separatist group that took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a Kurdish state in Turkey’s east.
The conflict has claimed more than 40,000 lives. Some 700 people have been killed in the past 14 months alone, making it the deadliest period in the region for than a decade.
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| A truck carries the bodies of dead Kurdish villagers |
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River to Sea"...ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Suspected Kurdish separatists killed four Turkish soldiers and wounded five more in an attack on a military convoy near the border with Iran and Iraq, a Turkish regional authority said on Saturday..."
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