Ankara, July 10: A Turkish civilian has been killed in a blast carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in Turkey’s eastern province of Siirt.
The explosion took place at Gorendoruk Village in the Eruh town of Siirt province late on Wednesday, the Turkish military said, Xinhua reported.
The military has adopted tougher actions against the PKK, especially in eastern and southeastern Turkey, after the country’s legislature extended a government mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq.
In 1984, the PKK took up arms to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. So far some 40,000 people have been killed in the two-decade long conflicts.
—–Agencies