December 05, 2015•Update: December 05, 2015
ANKARA
Two soldiers in Sirnak and a policeman in Diyarbakir were martyred in terrorist attacks in Turkey’s southeast region on Saturday, security sources have said.
A car carrying soldiers in plain clothes was shelled by PKK terrorists with long barreled weapons in Sirnak's Cizre district, killing 2 soldiers and injuring 2 others.
Meanwhile in Diyarbakir’s central Sur district, PKK militants shot and heavily wounded a policeman, who later died in Dicle University Medical Faculty Hospital, according to the provincial governor’s office and security sources.
President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, Tahir Elci, and two police officers had been killed in Sur on Nov. 28.
A curfew was declared in six neighborhoods of the district Wednesday as part of ongoing anti-terror operations.
The PKK -- considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU -- resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in late July.
Since then, more than 180 members of the security forces have been martyred and over 1,700 PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq, including airstrikes.
