Three Turkish soldiers were killed in southeastern Turkey when a bomb exploded on the border with Syria. The news was announced by the Ministry of Defense in Ankara.
According to the ministry, the three soldiers lost their lives in the town of Akcakale, in the province of Sanliurfa, due to the explosion of an improvised explosive device “placed there by terrorists”. However, no further details were given.
On the other side of the border is the Syrian city of Tal Abyad, which has been occupied by the Turkish army and its Syrian aides since October 2019, when Ankara launched an attack on the Kurdish paramilitary group People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Although the ministry did not mention the organization by name, it probably did.
Ankara has launched a series of operations in Turkey, Iraq and Syria against Kurdish rebels who either belong to or are affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by the Turkish government, the US and the EU, has been waging a guerrilla war against the Turkish state since 1984.
In northern Syria, the Turkish army launched large-scale operations against the YPG in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
For Ankara, the YPG is the PKK’s “terrorist” arm in Syria, although it has played a key role in US operations against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria.
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