Two More Turkish Troops Killed in Syria
Two more Turkish troops were killed on Tuesday while during operations against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria as Ankara pressed an unprecedented military operation there, the Dogan news agency said.
It said the soldiers were wounded in an explosion south of the Syrian town of Jarabulus while engaged in clean-up operations against IS.
They were taken over the border to hospital in the Turkish southeastern city of Gaziantep but died of their injuries.
The latest deaths raised to 10 the number of Turkish soldiers killed since Turkey began its operation to secure the Syrian border area on August 24, Dogan said.
Most of them have been killed by IS but one was also killed in an attack blamed on the People's Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia which is also targeted in the offensive.
Turkey sees the YPG as a terror group affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which is waging a bloody campaign against the Turkish state.
Source: Agence France Presse
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