NKARA, Turkey (AP) — A roadside bomb explosion killed
12 policemen in eastern Turkey after Turkish jets carried out airstrikes
against Kurdish rebels and their camps in northern Iraq, state media
reports said Tuesday.
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Kurdish rebels were suspected of detonating a
bomb in the eastern province of Igdir as a police vehicle escorting a
group of customs officials to a border gate was passing by, the Anadolu
Agency
reported. A number of other officers were injured in the attack
in the province which borders Armenia, the agency said.
The
attack comes amid a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey's
security forces and the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
Sixteen soldiers were killed in a similar attack by the Kurdistan
Workers' Party, or PKK, on Sunday.
