Turkey: Kurdish rebels attack soldiers guarding party leader
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Turkey's interior minister says Kurdish rebels have opened fire at security forces protecting a convoy of vehicles carrying Turkey's main opposition party leader in the northeast, wounding three soldiers.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People's Party told the state-run Anadolu Agency that he was safe and had been taken to a government building in Artvin province.
Minister Efkan Ala blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, for Thursday's attack. He said the assailants targeted a paramilitary police vehicle that was protecting Kilicdaroglu's motorcade. Its driver was seriously hurt, while two other soldiers were lightly wounded.
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Ala said the security forces immediately began an operation in the region.
Violence between the PKK and Turkish security forces resumed last year after the collapse of a peace process.