By Abdullah Celik, Gani Cihan Eser and Hasan Namli
UPDATES WITH FRESH INTRO TO REFLECT INCREASED CASUALTIES
BINGOL, Turkey (AA) – Four soldiers were martyred in a PKK attack in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, following an earlier death caused by a roadside bomb, a security source said.
The first incident in Bingol province saw a soldier martyred by a bomb that was detonated during a counter-terrorism operation around the village of Ortacanak, where two members of the counter-terrorism village guard militia were martyred in a PKK attack Tuesday.
The same source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said four soldiers were later martyred and two injured in a clash with PKK terrorists on the Diyarbakir-Bingol highway at Kiralan, a village in north Diyarbakir province.
The two injured soldiers are still being treated at Diyarbakir Military Hospital, the source said.
A hunt for the perpetrators, backed by air support, in both attacks was launched.
The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization also by the U.S. and EU — resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July last year, since when more than 600 security personnel have been martyred and around 7,000 PKK terrorists killed.
