Turkey appointed new administrators in two dozen Kurdish-run municipalities on Sunday after removing their elected mayors over suspected links to militants, triggering pockets of protest in its volatile southeastern region bordering Syria and Iraq.
Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is based.
Two bomb attacks blamed on Kurdish militants killed seven members of the security forces and wounded 224 people in southeast Turkey on Thursday (Aug 18), officials and security sources said, in a renewed escalation of violence across the region.
Turkey is hardening its resolve to crush the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, a mission analysts said is not easy to accomplish.
Eight suspects have been detained by Turkish police over Thursday's car bombing attack in Istanbul that wounded eight people, Turkish media reported on Friday.
Turkish army staged military operations in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey on Tuesday and killed 11 militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), Turkish Armed Forces said in a written statement on Wednesday.
One policeman was killed, three others injured by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) bombing attack on an armored police vehicle in southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Friday, Dogan News reported.
One soldier and one policeman were killed on Sunday in clashes with Kurdistan workers' Party ( PKK) in the district of Cizre in Sirnak province, the Turkish General Staff stated on Sunday.
The United States and Turkey pledged to cooperate more closely to reach a political solution in Syria while cleaning the region from the Islamic State (IS).
Two police officers were killed and 10 others wounded when members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) attacked an armored police bus in the southeastern province of Sirnak on Monday, private Dogan news agency reported.
Increased attacks have been reported against Turkish police and military targets by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), with reports pilling up as Turkey heightens security measures.
Turkey's two years long peace process to settle the country's Kurdish problem has hit a roadblock over violence in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast.
Militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) released on Monday four Turkish soldiers who were kidnapped in southeastern Turkey on Sunday evening, private Dogan news agency reported.
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