Two soldiers killed by landmine blast in SE Turkey

ANKARA, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Two soldiers of the Turkish security forces were killed by a landmine blast in southeastern Turkey on Friday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The report said the landmine planted by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) went off when the Turkish soldiers were on duty in Guclukonak town of Sirnak province, killing two soldiers. The Turkish security forces started to launch a large-scale operation to fight against the PKK rebels in this region, the report added. The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast Turkey. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade... [read full story]