ISTANBUL (Sputnik) — Two Turkish servicemen, including a major, were killed as militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK, outlawed in Turkey) detonated a bomb in the Lice district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province in Turkey, local media reported Tuesday.
According to the Daily Sabah newspaper, the attack was perpetrated on the highway between the Lice and Kulp districts. Another sergeant was reportedly wounded in the attack.
Kurds are an ethnic minority in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria and are striving for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state. The conflict between Turkey and Kurdish militant groups seeking independence escalated in July 2015, and was soon followed by terrorist acts allegedly committed by PKK militants and regular anti-PKK operations by the Turkish government.
