Kurds Mount Deadliest Attack in Turkey in More Than a Year
- Turkey says U.S. inaction against Kurds in Syria ‘big problem’
- Tensions between Turkey and U.S. simmer ahead of pastor trial
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Kurdish separatists killed seven Turkish soldiers in their deadliest assault in more than a year, as tensions between the U.S. and Turkey heighten over Washington’s failure to withdraw American-backed Kurdish forces from a strategic Syrian town.
The roadside bomb attack on Thursday targeted an armored army vehicle near the southeastern town of Gercus, according to the governor’s office in Batman province. It came after Turkish forces killed dozens of autonomy-seeking PKK militants over the past month in strikes on the group’s bases in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.