ANKARA: 5 Turkish soldiers killed in a bomb blast in Southern Turkey
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ANKARA: Four Turkish soldiers and one policeman killed in a bomb blast in southeastern Turkey.
The incident occurred when security forces were doing a search operation in Nusaybin town and a PKK militant detonated a handmade explosive
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Turkish General staff claimed that government troops killed 28 PKK militants in a operation in southeastern province of Mardin on Saturday and Security forces killed 22 PKK members on Sunday.
37 people were killed earlier this month while 29 people were killed in similar bombing attack in Ankara last month.
A suicide Kurd bomber killed at least 36 people and injured 61 in Ankara on February 17.
Four people were killed and 36 wounded days before in Istanbul when a suicide bomber blew up himself in a shopping street.
PKK is targeting Turkey after the cease-fire agreement was cancelled in July 2013 when PKK was found involved in a suicide attack in a Turkish town of border area.