The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attacked a military post in the Mardin Province, along the Syrian border overnight, wounding five people, four of them identified as soldiers. The Turkish military responded with a flurry of airstrikes.
Turkish officials say over 20 PKK fighters were killed in the airstrikes, and that they destroyed several PKK targets. They also said strikes in Sirnak and Hakkari yesterday had destroyed PKK gun positions and shelters.
These 20 killed follow up on Turkish military reports of at least 42 PKK fighters killed on Monday and Tuesday, which included both airstrikes against targets within Turkey and in northern Iraq. Three Turkish soldiers were killed over those two days.
Turkey has been fighting with the PKK since 1984, though a multi-year ceasefire ended last July, leading to an offensive against the PKK which, according to Turkish officials has killed well over 5,000 PKK fighters.