A Gendarme commander was killed in an attack in eastern Muş province's Malazgirt town Monday, authorities said.
Armed attackers opened fire on Major Aslan Kulaksiz, commander of Gendarme Garrison in Malazgirt town, when he was travelling with his wife and child in his car.
Mus Provincial Governor Vedat Buyukersoy told Anadolu Agency that Kulaksiz succumbed to his wounds at the Malazgirt State Hospital.
Security forces have launched an operation to nab the assailants.
Following the July 20 suicide bombing in Suruc that killed 32 activists, tensions have risen between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), with the latter stepping up attacks on police and troops while Turkish jets target the group's camps and its followers are rounded up.
Meanwhile another Turkish soldier was injured in an attack on an armored military vehicle in Turkey's eastern Van province on Monday, Turkish security sources said.
The army vehicle came under attack while it was on routine patrol duty on the Çaldiran-Dogubayazit Highway near the Mount Tendurek Pass. The security sources blamed “PKK terrorists” for the incident.
The specialist sergeant wounded in the attack was transferred in an ambulance to the Yuzuncu Yil University Dursun Odabas Medical Center.
Also, suspected PKK militants clashed with security forces using heavy weapons in the area and blocked the Mount Tendurek Pass between Caldiran and Dogubayazit by setting ablaze a truck.
An operation was launched in the area to nab the attackers.
On July 22, two police officers were found shot dead in southeastern Sanliurfa province. The PKK had claimed the responsibility for the incident.
On July 23, a policeman was killed and a colleague was wounded in a gun attack in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
A non-commissioned Turkish officer, Yalcin Nane, was killed and two Turkish sergeants were injured when gunfire believed to be coming from the direction of Syria hit uniformed personnel in Turkey's southern Kilis province on July 23.
The PKK is listed by Turkey, the U.S. and EU as a terrorist organization.
Turkish security forces have detained 1,050 suspects across 34 Turkish provinces since the nationwide "anti-terrorist operations" in the country began early July 24, the Turkish Prime Minister's Office of Public Diplomacy said in a statement Monday.
Most of the suspects allegedly belong to ISIL, PKK and the far-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
