Turkey's military has said 15 of its soldiers have been killed in the southeast of the country in an attack by Kurdish rebels who are based in northern Iraq.
The Anatolia news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying that the rebels attacked a Turkish military outpost near the border with Iraq. Turkish jets attack PKK hideout ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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