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title: "One Troop Killed By Pkk Militants: Army"
date: "2015-09-02 16:15:01"
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# One Troop Killed By Pkk Militants: Army
\- The Turkish military reported Sept. 2 a Turkish troop was killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in an ambush that occurred in Hakkari, a southeastern Anatolian town bordering Iraq and Iran.
The incident took place at 7:05 a.m. local time in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari, as a group of PKK militants opened fire on a military unit in an operation to provide road safety between the Şemdinli and Tekeli districts.
A troop was killed, the army said in its statement, while two others were lightly wounded. Two F-16s were immediately sent to the region as part of a comprehensive military mobilization towards the region to defeat the terrorists, it read.
As a result of the aerial campaign of the F-16s, 20 terrorists were killed, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported, citing “reliable security sources.”
The clashes between the Turkish army and the PKK have been intensified since mid-July after the cease fire has been broken.