ANKARA (Sputnik) — Earlier on Tuesday, the General Staff stated that two military personnel died and 38 were injured after a car bomb exploded in the Diyarbakir Province. On the Kurdish side, 30 PKK fighters were killed over the past day, according to the General Staff.
"During the operation against members of the PKK separatist terrorist organization in the town of Nusaybin in Mardin Province, one comrade died and four suffered injuries, with one later dying in hospital. In Sirnak, three comrades were wounded, with one dying in hospital. In Yuksekova, Hakkari Province, one comrade died in an explosion, while four were injured and were hospitalized," the General Staff said in a statement on Tuesday.
Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala reintroduced a 24/7 curfew across seven southeastern Turkish regions, including the city of Sirnak, on March 20.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleges over 5,000 Kurdish insurgents have been killed in the campaign since mid-December, a figure that pro-Kurdish officials contend includes hundreds of civilians.
