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Turkish security forces neutralize 11 terrorists near SE border

Ersin Çelik
12:0628/04/2017, Friday
U: 28/04/2017, Friday
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Turkish security forces launched a counterattack and neutralized 11 terrorists and three rocket launchers.
Turkish security forces launched a counterattack and neutralized 11 terrorists and three rocket launchers.

An army post on Turkey's southeastern border province of Şanlıurfa was attacked by mortar fire from the nearby PKK/PYD region, the Turkish Armed Forces said on Friday.

No soldiers were killed or wounded in the mortar attack.

The statement said Turkey responded with a heavy artillery bombardment that killed a three-man PKK/PYD mortar team as well as eight terrorists manning a vehicle-fixed heavy machine gun.

#Turkey
#Şanlıurfa
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