MESOP : NO CEASEFIRE & NO PEACE PROCESS – Three Turkish soldiers shot dead in southeast / PKK Attacks

October 25, 2014 – YUKSEKOVA, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish majority southeast of the country, the official Anatolia news agency reported.

The three soldiers were shot dead on the street in the Kurdish town of Yuksekova in Hakkari province of Turkey’s extreme southeast bordering Iraq and Iran.The attackers escaped but a security operation was underway to apprehend them, the agency said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. There has been an upsurge in tensions in recent weeks between the authorities and Kurdish militants furious over the government’s cautious policy on helping the the Kurdish town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan, which has been besieged by jihadists of the Islamic State. On Friday Turkish soldiers killed three Kurdish militants who were part of a group that attacked a power plant in the eastern province of Kars, Turkish sources said on Friday. According to the Turkish source fighters from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) set fire to two vehicles and a cabin at the plant in Kagizman district in Turkish Kurdistan, and shot at soldiers who returned fire, the general staff said in a statement on its website.