Turkish troops killed in 'PKK suicide attack'

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and at least two dozen other troops were wounded early yesterday  in a suicide attack blamed on Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels' bases in northern Iraq.

The attack in the Dogubayazit district of the eastern Agri province is the first time Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been accused of staging a suicide attack in the current crisis.

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Ankara has launched a two-pronged "anti-terror" offensive against ISIS in Syria and PKK militants based in northern Iraq after a wave of attacks inside Turkey. But so far the bombardments have focused far more on the Kurdish rebels with Turkish official media claiming that 260 suspected PKK members have been killed so far.