MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Sunday's Zaman, the bomb was planted on the road between the Tunceli and Erzincan provinces and was detonated under a military vehicle.
The wounded were transferred to the hospital by helicopters while additional troops were dispatched to the area to launch a military operation following the attack allegedly carried out by the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Tensions in Turkey escalated in mid-summer when the country launched a military campaign against PKK in northern Iraq, after militants claimed responsibility for the murders of several Turkish police officers they insisted were allied with Islamic State.
The PKK, considered to be a terrorist organization by Ankara, began its separatist insurgency in 1984. The group seeks to create a Kurdish state in parts of Turkey and Iraq.
