Turkey: 13 turkish soldiers dead, 7 wounded in clash with Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Terrorists killed 13 soldiers and wounded seven others in an ambush that marked the worst attack since the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ended a cease-fire in February.
The state-run Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday that two of the wounded soldiers are in critical condition. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan immediately called a meeting in Ankara with army and intelligence chiefs as well as the interior minister and the head of the paramilitary gendarmerie.
Security forces, backed by warplanes, have launched a hunt for the PKK members responsible in the mountains of Diyarbakır province. Erdoğan and Chief of General Staff Işık Koşaner cancelled their programs to attend a meeting with National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan at the Prime Ministry to deal with the latest deadly attack.