By Xinhua,
Ankara : Four Turkish soldiers were injured when militants of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked a gendarmery station in the country’s southeastern part, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.
The incident took place late Thursday when PKK rebels hurled hand grenades and opened fire on a military post, which was one kmaway from the gendarmery station near Bolukyazi in province of Bitlis, deputy provincial governor Harun Basibuyuk was quoted as saying.
Basibuyuk said that sergeant Omer Dogan was seriously wounded in the attack and taken to Ankara Gulhane Military Hospital and other injured privates were under treatment at Tatvan Military Hospital.
The PKK attack came after Turkish jets launched an air strike against the group targets based in north Iraq’s Hakurk region at 11 a.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday.
The PKK, listed by Washington and Ankara as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.