Car Bomb Kills Six Soldiers in Turkey
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Six Turkish soldiers have been killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded in a car bomb explosion in the country's southeast.
Sources said the blast hit the Durak police station, in a mountainous part of Hakkari province near the border with Iraq and Iran, where Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants are active.
The privately-owned Dogan news agency said the explosion happened on Sunday during vehicle searches on the road in front of the police station, the Associated Press reported.
The PKK, which launched a separatist insurgency in 1984, is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
A two-year ceasefire between the group and Turkish authorities collapsed in July last year and the violence subsequently flared to levels not seen since the height of the conflict in the 1990s.
