June-August 2012 Hakkari clashes

Notice allows governors to call soldiers to duty in fight against terrorism

The government has paved the way for Turkish Land Forces soldiers to be used to intervene in acts of terrorism and public incidents, as tension grows in the country, with 30 Turkish security forces recently killed in three separate attacks in three days by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in Turkey's southeast. 

One soldier, one policeman killed by PKK militants in two attacks in Turkey's east

One soldier was killed in an ambush staged by outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) militants in Turkey?s southeastern province of Hakkari on Sept. 1, a day after a police officer was killed in a PKK attack in the eastern province of Batman. 

Three security personnel dead in multiple crashes in Turkey's east

Three security personnel have died and nine others have been injured in multiple incidents over the past two days.

Police officer Oktay Uçar died and one other officer was injured after a police vehicle on patrol turned over in an area between the southeastern province of Mardin?s Artuklu and Ye?illi districts around 4 a.m. on Aug. 26, Do?an News Agency reported. 

Turkish army captain killed in PKK attack

An army captain was killed when militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacked a military outpost in southeastern Turkey late Aug. 21.

PKK militants targeted a gendarmerie outpost in the Beytü??ebap district of the ??rnak province at 9.30 p.m. Captain Ali Alkan and two more soldiers were wounded in the clash that continued for an hour, Turkish media reports said.

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