SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Four Turkish soldiers and one civilian were wounded after Syrian Kurdish fighters fired rockets and mortar shells on a military border post in southeast of Turkey on Thursday, Turkey’s defense ministry said.
The Turkish military carried out retaliatory fire against targets in the Kobani region where the attack was made, the ministry said, according to Reuters.
It added that the five people wounded in the Karkamis district of Gaziantep province were taken to hospital for treatment.
The Kobani region is under the control of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey considers a “terrorist group” and an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984.
