Articles About Terrorist Activities

Two soldiers were killed and two were wounded in a terrorist attack waged in Semdinli town of the southeastern province of Hakkari on Wednesday.

PKK terrorists opened fire on Turkish security teams patrolling in a mountainous area of Semdinli town, killing one soldier and injuring three others in initial fire.

The wounded soldiers were immediately hospitalized, however, one of them lost his life at the military hospital, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »

Suspected Kurdish militants opened fire on a police van in southeast Turkey on Thursday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, local officials said.

Dozens of bullets were fired at the vehicle, which was on patrol in the centre of Kiziltepe town, at the Syrian border, witnesses said.

The officer died in hospital after the shooting, which left another policeman and two passers-by wounded, said an official from the governor’s office in Mardin province, where the town is located. Read the rest of this entry »

Two police officers were killed under cross-fire in an ambush Saturday night in the Ladik district of Samsun.

Unidentified assailants who hid themselves on a five storey construction opened fire with rifles on a police patrol. Police Officer Huseyin Koc was killed instantly in the car while, Malik Soysal who was heavily wounded, died in the hospital.

Samsun Governor Hasan Basri Guzeloglu told reporters after the attack that initial findings suggested the attack was a terrorist ambush. A wide scale operation was launched to catch the assailants after the attack, said Guzeloglu. Read the rest of this entry »

One soldier was killed and two others injured in the southeastern province of Batman on Thursday, media reports said, during a series of violent conflicts between the military and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party, or PKK.

The conflict erupted in the Tumok region of the province. At the onset of the conflict, Batman governor cancelled a public concert in the city. Read the rest of this entry »

A security committee comprised Turkish, Iraqi and U.S. officials on Sunday agreed on an “action plan” to fight the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. 

The fifth meeting of the trilateral security committee between Turkey, Iraq and the U.S. was held Sunday in Istanbul, according to statement released Monday by the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.

The participating delegations were headed by Turkish Interior Minister Beşir Atalay, Iraqi State Minister for National Security Shirvan Al Waili and U.S. Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson of the United States, according to the statement. Read the rest of this entry »