PKK terror attack injures village guard in SE Turkey

By Selman Tur and Mumin Altas

BATMAN, Turkey

A village guard was slightly wounded in a PKK terror attack in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, the local governorate said.

In a statement, Batman Governor's Office said a village guard was injured in Kozluk district when an improvised explosive device, planted on the road by PKK terrorists, detonated.

The injured guard was transferred to Kozluk State Hospital.

An operation was launched to arrest the terrorists, the statement added.

Meanwhile, Turkish jets hit six PKK positions as part of anti-terror operations in the Hakurk region of northern Iraq, the Turkish army said on Twitter on Wednesday.

Listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU, the PKK has waged a wide-ranging terror campaign against the Turkish state since the mid-1980s, in which an estimated 40,000 people have been killed.