Turkey: Three soldiers were killed in a bomb blast on the border with Syria

Three soldiers were killed in the southeast Turkey, and more specifically in the town of Akcakale, in the province of Sanliurfa, when A bomb exploded on the border with Syria, with the Ministry of Defense stressing that it was “Placed there by terrorists”, without giving details.

On the other side of the border is the Syrian city of Tal Abyad, which has been occupied by the Turkish army and its Syrian aides since October 2019, when Ankara launched an attack on the Kurdish paramilitary group People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Although the ministry did not mention the organization by name, it probably did.

Ankara launches series of operations in Turkey, Iraq and Syria against Kurdish rebels either belonging to or affiliated with the armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by the Turkish government, the US and the EU, has been waging a guerrilla war against the Turkish state since 1984.

In northern Syria, the Turkish army launched large-scale operations against the YPG in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

For Ankara, the YPG is the PKK’s “terrorist” arm in Syria, although it has played a key role in US operations against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in Syria.

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