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Six Turkish Military Men Killed By Remote Bomb on Syrian Border

© REUTERS / StringerForensic experts and plain clothes security officers inspect a police housing comlex after a car bomb and rocket attack by Kurdish militants in Nusaybin, in the southeastern province of Mardin, Turkey March 4, 2016
Forensic experts and plain clothes security officers inspect a police housing comlex after a car bomb and rocket attack by Kurdish militants in Nusaybin, in the southeastern province of Mardin, Turkey March 4, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Five Turkish soldiers and a member of a special operations team died in a bomb blast on Saturday during a security operation in the southern Turkish city of Nusaybin, local media reported.

ANKARA (Sputnik) — The military operation was conducted in the Kurdish-dominated city on the Syrian border as part of Ankara’s ongoing effort to defeat the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), outlawed in Turkey.

Turkish special force police officers walk at the site of a bomb attack in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on March 31, 2016 - Sputnik International
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A military source told the Turkish Dogan news agency that Kurdish insurgents had detonated the bomb remotely when security forces entered a home in Nusaybin.

Some 350 service members have died in clashes with PKK since a ceasefire between Kurdish rebels and Ankara broke down in July 2015, prompting Turkish authorities to launch raids in the Kurdish-majority southeastern provinces.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that more than 5,000 rebels had been killed over the same period of time, although pro-Kurdish lawmakers say the campaign took a heavy toll on the civilian population.

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