Kurdish rebels step up attacks in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's state-run television says Kurdish rebels have killed one soldier and wounded 10 others in an attack in the country's southeast.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seen during a religious funeral for Ahmet Caglar, one of four soldiers killed when a Turkish paramilitary helicopter crashed Sunday in Hakkari province, close to the border with Iraq, where troops are fighting Kurdish rebels, during his funeral at Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 24, 2012.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

In this Tuesday, July 24, 2012 photo, a Syrian boy sits atop a damaged military tank at the border town of Azaz, some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Aleppo, Syria. Turkey sealed its border with Syria to trucks on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 cutting off a vital supply line to the embattled nation as fighting stretched into its fifth day in the commercial capital of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Turkpix)

 

TRT says on Friday that the rebels attacked a military outpost near the town of Eruh in Sirt province as the soldiers were breaking fast on Thursday evening.

The Turkish troops have been engaged in a major clash with Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast Turkey.
Ankara fears that the rebels are likely to use the civil war in Syria to set up bases in that country.


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