Five Turkish soldiers and 30 Kurdish militants have been killed in the past 24 hours in attacks and clashes across Turkey’s turbulent southeast region, security sources and the army said on Tuesday.

An estimated 57 people, including eight civilians, were wounded in the attacks, they said.

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Two ethnic Armenian troops died in fighting with Azerbaijani forces Friday as the arch foes accused each other of breaching a cease-fire that halted the worst outbreak of violence in decades over a disputed breakaway region.

The latest clashes are the first serious violation of a Moscow-mediated cease-fire which took effect on Tuesday, ending several days of fighting over the Nagorno Karabakh region that claimed at least 90 lives.

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The Turkish military has said it carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq against targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

In a statement posted on its website, the Turkish Armed Forces said the airstrikes had targeted weapon stores, shelters and other PKK sites in the Qandil area of northern Iraq.

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An Armenian artillery position of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh on April 3, 2016. Photo by Vahram Baghdasaryan/EPA

Azerbaijan and the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh said on Tuesday they were halting hostilities after four days of intense fighting between them that had sparked fears the conflict could spiral into all-out war.

Reuters was not immediately able to verify whether the fighting - a resurgence of a decades-old conflict over the status of the region - had, in fact, stopped.

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Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry announced a unilateral cease-fire Sunday against the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a claim that rebel forces there promptly rejected.

Fighting in what was a dormant conflict for two decades flared up over the weekend with a boy and at least 30 troops killed on both sides. Each side blamed the other for Saturday’s escalation, the worst since the end of a full-scale war in 1994.

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