Two Turkish soldiers were killed in mine blast in eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Thursday.
The soldiers were killed while searching landmine planted by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Bolukyazi rural area of Bitlis province, according to the report.
The PKK has increased attacks on Turkish troops in southeastern Turkey in recent months, which led to rising Turkish demands for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the rebels based there.
The group, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30, 000 lives.
Source: Xinhua
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