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But it has launched more than 400 strikes against the PKK in and outside Turkey, he said. The government considers the PKK a terrorist organization just like the Islamic State, as do various Western countries.

Also Monday, Kurdish rebels in the southeastern province of Sirnak fired at a helicopter carrying conscripts who either had finished their term of duty or were taking leave, killing one of them and injuring another, the military said.

Turkey has seen a sharp spike in clashes between security forces and rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the a wake of its campaign against PKK targets in Iraq in tandem with airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.

The PKK claimed responsibility for Monday’s bombing of the police station in which four people died, three of them attackers.