A car bomb attack killed two Turkish soldiers
in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the
country ,after separatist rebels warned they
would no longer observe a truce after Ankara
's air strikes on their position in Iraq,officials
said Sunday.
Turkey has launched a two-pronged "ant-
terror" across -border offensive against
Islamic State ( IS )jihadists and Kurdistan
Workers Party PKK militants after a wave
of violence in the country ,pounding their
positions with air strikes and artillery.
But the expansion of the campaign to
include not just IS targets in Syria but PKK
rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq bitterly
opposed to the jihadists has put in jeopardy
a truce with Kurdish militants that has
largely held since 2013.
The PKK on Saturday said that the conditions
were no longer in place to observe the
ceasefire,following the heaviest Turkish
air strikes on its positions in northern
Iraq since August2011.
The car bomb went off as the soldiers
were travelling on a road in the Lice district
of Diyarbakir province ,last Saturday,the
statement from the local governor's office said,
"Two of our personnel were killed in the
heinous attack,four were wounded "said
the statement ,adding that large-scale
operations have been launched to find
the perpetrators ,There was no immediate
claim of responsibility ,
The PKK has for decades waged a deadly
insurgency in the southeast of Turkey for
self-rule that has claimed tens of thousands
of lives .
A peace process that began in 2013 has
so far failed to yield a final deal..
AFP
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