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Two leaders of Basque separatist group ETA have been arrested in France, Spanish state-run news agency Efe reported Tuesday, citing a spokesman for Spain‘s paramilitary police unit Guardia Civil.
David Pla and Iratxe Sorzabal were captured in the south-western French town of Saint-Jean-de-Pied-de-Port near the border with Spain, in a joint operation by French and Spanish police.
Turkish warplanes launched a massive air operation early on Sept.8 against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, killing as many as 40 militants, the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) said.
More than 50 Turkish jets were involved in the six hours of raids, killing “35 to 40 terrorists according to preliminary findings”, AA said.
PKK terrorists targeted Turkish soldiers in a landmine attack late Sunday in the town of Dağlıca of Turkey’s eastern Hakkari province, wounding and killing several soldiers, according to security sources.
The incident took place on a road in the town of Dağlıca Sunday evening, as two armed vehicles belonging to Turkish soldiers were crossing.
14 soldiers were killed in the attack, reported Reuters and added that more casualties are feared, although Turkish security officials have not released an official statement yet.
Seven Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another 13 have been injured in the conflict area in the country’s eastern regions over the past 24 hours.
The Turkish military said on Tuesday 34 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in its latest air strikes on the group’s camps in northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain region.
Turkey has been bombing PKK targets in northern Iraq and in mostly Kurdish southeastern Turkey since July 24, in response to what it says are increased attacks by the Kurdish militants on members of the security forces.