Kurdish militants killed three Turkish soldiers in Turkey's southeast on Saturday, the Turkish Armed Forces said, in a further blow to peace talks between Ankara and the insurgents. Three members of the "separatist terrorist organisation", a term used by the army to describe the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), shot the soldiers who were in plain clothes, the army said in a statement. On Friday, soldiers shot dead three PKK guerrillas after fighters from the outlawed group set fire to two vehicles and a power plant in the eastern province of Kars and shot at soldiers who returned fire. Dozens were killed in eastern Turkey this month after riots by Kurds over what they saw as the government's refusal to help Syrian Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in the besieged town of Kobani on Turkey's southern border. Read More http://ift.tt/1xo5raI
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