Two Turkish soldiers killed in PKK bomb attack

Officials say 14 people have in clashes between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces days before a G-20 summit in Turkey.

The state-run Anadolu Agency says police nabbed four protesters who held up placards outside a domestic flights terminal at Antalya airport on Saturday.

Six other Daesh members were apprehended in Turkey’s Syrian border province of Kilis while they were attempting to cross the Turkey border into Syria illegally.

Authorities declared the curfew, barring the town’s residents from leaving their homes, as security forces battle Kurdish youths linked to the PKK’s youth wing there.

The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and the European Union, renewed its armed campaign against the Turkish state this summer. The soldiers responded, killing four militants inside one of the cars.

Also Friday, two soldiers were killed in a mine explosion on a road in the Lice district of the southeastern Diyarbakir region blamed on the PKK, Turkish media said.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday the anti-PKK offensive in the town was “largely complete”, but added: “It will continue until peace has been restored in each neighbourhood of Silvan”.

Violence between the PKK and Turkish security forces has surged since the collapse of a two-year ceasefire in July, with hundreds thought to have died in the bloodshed.