Turkish Soldier Killed After Coming Under Fire From Across Border With Iran

Iran

June 24th, 7:01am

Asharq Al-Awsat

Smoke rises from Syria's Afrin region, as it is pictured from near the Turkish town of Hassa, on the Turkish-Syrian border in Hatay province, Turkey January 20, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal/File Photo

One Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in southeast Turkey as they came under fire from the Iranian side of the border, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday in a statement that did not say who had shot at its soldiers. The soldiers were conducting reconnaissance and surveillance mission at the border town of Yuksekova in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, the ministry said. Turkey has been fighting against the Kurdish militant group PKK along its borders with Syria and Iraq for several decades.

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