Articles About Terrorist Activities

Separatist Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military unit near the Iraqi border, killing six soldiers in one of their bloodiest assaults this year, officials said Tuesday.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, armed with rockets and assault rifles, launched the attack overnight, near the border town of Cukurca, targeting a military unit stationed there as reinforcement after a significant escalation of rebel violence since June, military sources said.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that six soldiers were killed and 15 wounded in the ensuing clashes, adding that a PKK rebel was shot dead by security forces. Read the rest of this entry »

Mine exploded in the eastern province of Van on Thursday, killing one soldier.

Mine, earlier planted on the rural area in Van’s Gurpinar town by the terrorist organization PKK, went off when security forces were tracking down terrorists.

One soldier died, another was wounded in the blast. The injured soldier was taken under treatment in a military hospital in Van. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish military killed a total of 46 terrorists during operations over the past one month in southeast part of the country.

The number of terrorists killed in operations in last six months reached 187, military sources said. The terrorist organization has suffered heavy losses in recent months as Turkish military started using Cobra helicopters and Heron unmanned aerial vehicles after rising casual terrorist attacks followed by a recent order –from Mounth Qandil in the north of Iraq where terrorist heads are located– to escalate attacks. Read the rest of this entry »

Terrorists killed one soldier and wounded three others, including a lieutenant, in an attack on a commando team in Gercus town of south-east province of Batman on Tuesday night, the Governor’s Office in Batman said on Wednesday.

According to the Batman Governor’s Office, the attack on Turkish commando troops took place at around 20:50 hours. Read the rest of this entry »

PKK terrorists attacked a military outpost in southeastern province of Hakkari killing three soldiers and injuring three others.

Terrorists opened fire on a military outpost with long range weapons in Semdinli town of Hakkari early on Tuesday. Three soldiers were killed while three others were wounded.

Nine terrorists were killed in the ensuing clashes that erupted between soldiers and terrorists. Read the rest of this entry »

Kurdish terrorists waging a 26-year insurgency were suspected of being behind a blast in southeastern Turkey that hit a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq, a local security source said Sunday.

The blast late Saturday ripped through a section of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline near Midyat, in Mardin province, sparking a fire, the source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. The blaze was put out early Sunday.

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were believed to have bombed the pipeline, and a security operation was underway in the area, added the source. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the PKK. Read the rest of this entry »

Syria has detained 400 people in operations against the terrorist organization PKK.

Syrian security forces have staged operations against the terrorist organization PKK in Aleppo, Kamishli, Afrin, Al Hasaka and Al Raqqa cities, and detained 400 people on charges of being a member of the terrorist organization. The detainees are also interrogated on charges of collecting unjust money, attempting to divide Syria and establish a separate state, and dissolve Kurds living in Syria ethnically and religiously.

Also, Syria decided to implement harsh sanctions against families of Kurdish descend who provide logistical support to the terrorist organization PKK. Syrian authorities have said that they would get back the rights of such people who were given the right to use Syrian territories. Read the rest of this entry »

One Turkish soldier and three village guards were killed in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the southeastern province of Siirt late Wednesday. The ambush also wounded two other soldiers.

PKK members attacked the outpost of a commando battalion near Doğan village of Pervari district, killing a lieutenant and three village guards supporting the military in its fight against the PKK.

A lieutenant died and two soldiers were wounded in the first fire by the terrorist group, which was trying to infiltrate the outpost. Read the rest of this entry »

Death toll rose to six on Saturday after a roadside bomb struck a bus carrying military personnel and their families on June 22 in Istanbul’s Halkali district.

Sergeant Mehmet Bosnak (37), who was seriously wounded in the attack, lost his life at hospital’s intensive care unit today. Read the rest of this entry »

Members of an outlawed terrorist organization killed two Turkish soldiers and a civilian and wounded six other people, including three civilians, in an attack late Thursday on a military outpost in eastern Turkey, Turkish media reported.

The terrorists attacked a patrol and the outpost not far away in a rural area in the province of Elazığ, the Anatolia news agency and broadcaster NTV said.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has dramatically stepped up violence this month, threatening to spread its attacks outside of the country’s Southeast, its main area of operation. Read the rest of this entry »