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PKK Fighters Kill Four Turkish Army Personnel in Southeast Provinces

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Four Turkish Armed Forces service personnel died and nine were injured as a result of clashes with militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey's southeastern provinces, The Turkish General Staff said.

ANKARA (Sputnik) — Earlier on Tuesday, the General Staff stated that two military personnel died and 38 were injured after a car bomb exploded in the Diyarbakir Province. On the Kurdish side, 30 PKK fighters were killed over the past day, according to the General Staff.

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"During the operation against members of the PKK separatist terrorist organization in the town of Nusaybin in Mardin Province, one comrade died and four suffered injuries, with one later dying in hospital. In Sirnak, three comrades were wounded, with one dying in hospital. In Yuksekova, Hakkari Province, one comrade died in an explosion, while four were injured and were hospitalized," the General Staff said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Tensions between Ankara and Turkey's Kurds escalated in July 2015 as fighting between the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Kurdish pro-independence organization considered to be terrorist by Ankara, and the Turkish army resumed. Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews in Kurdish-populated towns, preventing civilians from fleeing the regions where the military operations are taking place.

Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala reintroduced a 24/7 curfew across seven southeastern Turkish regions, including the city of Sirnak, on March 20.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleges over 5,000 Kurdish insurgents have been killed in the campaign since mid-December, a figure that pro-Kurdish officials contend includes hundreds of civilians.

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