TURKEY’S army has killed 35 Kurdish
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Picture: AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer Presidential Press Service Source: AP TURKEY’S army has killed 35 Kurdish militants after they attempted to storm a base in the southeastern Hakkari province. Military officials say the overnight attack came hours after clashes between soldiers and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Cukurca that left eight soldiers dead. The militants attempted to take the base in three different groups but were spotted by aerial reconnaissance. An air operation was launched, killing 23 of them, the officials said. Four more were then killed in a ground operation. The remaining eight were killed in clashes in Hakkari’s Cukurca district. Friday’s clashes in Cukurca also left 25 soldiers wounded. Turkey’s military — NATO’s second-largest — is grappling with insurgency in the Kurdish southeast as its senior ranks undergo a major shake-up after