Several Turkish soldiers killed in suspected major PKK attack: reports

Sunday, 6 September, 2015 , 19:08

Ankara, Sept 6, 2015 (AFP) — Several Turkish soldiers were killed on Sunday in a major attack in southeastern Hakkari province suspected to have been carried out by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, reports said.

There was no immediate official casualty toll but in a sign of the gravity of the situation Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu broke off a trip to Konya to watch a national football game and summoned an emergency security meeting in Ankara, the reports added.