ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least three Turkish soldiers were killed and one injured when the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) attacked a Turkish military convoy in the town of Silopi in Turkey's southeastern Sirank province, Turkish media reported Tuesday.
A Turkish army vehicle was carrying soldiers in a military operation in Silopi when the PKK fighters detonated a remote-controlled bomb at the side of the road.
Authorities have declared a curfew in the town as security forces battle the PKK.
On Saturday, Turkish forces said they killed 119 PKK fighters and lost six men during a 40-day land-and-air assault against the rebels in southeastern Hakkari province.
The Turkish government reignited a war with the PKK after the rebels claimed responsibility for the deaths of two police officers in late July. The fighting has ended a 2013 ceasefire that was meant to resolve a three-decade conflict in which some 40,000 people have been killed.
Turkish forces have been fighting the PKK since the two-and-a-half year cease-fire broke down in late July following a bombing in Suruc.
On November 1, voters in Turkey headed to the polls to vote in snap parliamentary elections, after polls in June failed to elect a new government because no party garnered a majority or was able to cobble together a coalition.
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