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Syrian Kurd militia attack kills Turkish soldier: ministry Istanbul, June 26 (AFP) Jun 26, 2019 A Turkish soldier was killed and five were wounded on Wednesday in a clash with Syrian Kurdish militia forces, the defence ministry said. "Our hero comrade fell martyr and five were wounded during the clashes with the terrorists," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry say where the clashes with the People's Protection Units (YPG) occurred. The Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it was a rocket attack on a Turkish position in northern Aleppo. Turkey says the YPG is a Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984 and is branded as a terrorist group by Ankara. While Turkey's Western allies have also designated the PKK a terrorist organisation, they support the YPG as a crucial force in the fight against the Islamic State group. |
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