Turkish forces in the area of Siirt, where six soldiers were killed on March 30, 2018. Photo: Ilyas Akengin, AFP
Six Turkish security forces were killed on Friday after an attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern province of Siirt in Turkey, the governor’s office said in a statement.
Three other village guards and four soldiers were wounded while they were providing safety during road construction,according to the statement. Those killed were also village guards — locals employed to combat Kurdish militants.
The governorate did not give further details on the attack but blamed the “separatist terrorist organisation” — Turkey’s official term for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The office said that a wide operation was underway to “neutralise the PKK terrorists who launched the attack.”
The PKK has been waging an insurgency in the southeast since 1984 and is proscribed as a terror organisation by Ankara and its Western allies. Fighting in the region intensified between Turkish security forces and the PKK after the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in 2015.
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