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Turkey Conducts Airstrikes on 17 Suspected PKK Targets

Turkey conducted a new series of airstrikes overnight, hitting 17 suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the southeastern part of the country on the border with Iran and Iraq.

According to a statement of the Turkish General Staff, the airstrikes were aimed at "terrorist targets" around the Buzul mountain and Ikiyaka region in Hakkari province.

One soldier injured in gun attack in Turkey's east

A non-commissioned officer has been injured in a gun attack in the eastern province of Erzurum, as local conflicts with Kurdish militants continued to engulf the country?s east.

Naz?m Altun was attacked by suspected outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in the Horasan district as he was heading to a military compound with his car. 

Specialized sergeant killed in gun attack in Turkey's east

A specialized sergeant military officer was killed July 28 in Turkey?s southeastern province of Hakkari as a result of an armed attack.

Specialized sergeant Ziya Sarpkaya, who was dressed in plain clothes, was assaulted in front of a bank in the ?emdinli district of Hakkari at around 11:30 a.m. He was immediately taken to hospital but succumbbed to his injuries in the afternoon.

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