The woman, who was injured after a fall in her home, was helped by her neighbors in Yüksekova town.

Residents of Yüksekova carried the woman for 3 kilometers. She then was taken to the Yüksekova State Hospital by an ambulance which was waiting on the midway.

Video: PKK ditches hinder transport of injured in southern Turkey

Thousands of people have left their homes because of ongoing terror attacks in Southern Turkey.

Security forces have been fighting against the terror group by removing barricades set up by the PKK, destroying booby traps and filling excavated ditches in the region.

The PKK targets civilians, burns mosques, schools and hospitals and carries out attacks on ambulances.

It was discovered that the terrorist organization instructed militants to demolish all houses, schools and hospitals, through the leakage of walky-talkies conversations among PKK members.

The PKK is an armed militant group that has been carrying out terror attacks mostly in southeastern Turkey for more than 30 years.

“Shelters, underground coves and weapons emplacements used by the Separatist Terrorist Organization (PKK) in the Hakkari / Çukurca area have been destroyed by airstrikes,” said Turkish Armed Forces in a statement.

Moreover, the Turkish military destroyed handmade explosives in the Ovacık district of Tunceli and seized three Kalashnikov rifles and 100 bullets in a house search in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari.

A PKK terrorist had been detained while intending to cross Syrian border into Turkey through illegal way.

Turkey, the US and the European Union list the PKK as a terrorist organization. It has been fighting Turkish government forces, mainly in southeastern Turkey, for 31 years.

The military sources said operations against the PKK are expected to continue, as it intensified the anti-PKK campaign this summer after a ceasefire was rescinded.

After the campaign, 119 PKK terrorists were found dead. Two commando brigades and special operations forces were engaged in the operation, which officially began on September 27 and generally ended on November 5.

During the 40-day-long campaign, reinforcement troops were carried every two or three days by military helicopters to the operation area.

The operation took place in a rugged terrain area with steep cliffs at the altitude of around 3,500 metres, where the temperature falls to -15 degrees at night.

The military campaing was named for Lt. Colonel İlker Çelikcan, who lost his life in a malicious PKK attack in Dağlıca village on September 6. Troops managed to enter the most rugged parts of the terrain, where everyone previously believed impossiple to get access.

Heavy clashes, which erupted with PKK members in some parts of the operation, left six soldiers dead. Improvised explosives, previously planted by the PKK in the path of Turkish troops, were succesfully detonated. The military forces discovered various substances and materials used for making bombs and different sort of explosives.

Five anti-aircraft missiles, 39 heavy weapons and tens of thousands of munitions were found during the operation. PKK targets, used as shelters, bunkers, as well as their military positions were successfully destroyed during the campaign, which was backed by the Turkish air forces.

Two soldiers were killed and one other suffered slight injuries during the conflict on November 4.

The unrest in the Southeast still continues after Sunday's elections, which resulted in the AK Party's regaining of the majority in Parliament. The town of Yüksekova has remained tense as PKK terrorists resist security forces, who have launched operations to remove barricades, which closed access to remote areas into Yüksekova.

Turkish jets bomb PKK camps in Turkey, northern Iraq

Media reports quoting the General Staff said that 15 members of the terrorist organisation were neutralized during the ongoing air campaign aimed at PKK members, who were still trying to advance in small groups in Dağlıca in the aftermath of the air campaign conducted on November 3.

Turkish army began its air-and-ground operations against PKK terrorist organization inside Turkey and northern Iraq in late July, as the PKK renewed its armed campaign against the Turkish state following a two-and-a-half year cease-fire.

The military also said that, four terrorists from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in the fierce clashes with the troops in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

“One machine gun, three Kalashnikov automatic rifles, 250 rifle cartridges, two hand grenades, one radio set and one sleeping bag were discovered during the search carried out in the operation area," the General Staff said on its official site.

A total of 13 people were detained on charges of aiding and abetting the terrorist organisation in the east and southeast, according to the General Staff's statement. Ten people were held in Nusaybin, a town in the southeastern province of Mardin, while the remaining three were apprehended in Digor, close to province of Kars.

According to the General Staff, Turkish war planes destroyed 16 targets belonging to the PKK in areas near the border with Iraq and in northern Iraq. The targets, including shelters and bunkers in Dağlıca, near Turkey's Hakkari province near the border with Iraq, as well as Avaşin-Basyan in northern Iraq were struck by Turkish jets.

Two PKK terrorists turned themselves in to the security forces in Hakkari province's Çukurca district. Three improvised explosive devices found in remote areas of the provinces of Şırnak, Mardin and Hakkâri, were detonated by troops conducting road-checking duty.

The clashes erupted after the police launched a security operation in the province's Yüksekova town, still remains on the edge. The operation was conducted to remove roadblocks and close the ditches, dugged by PKK members earlier on the day.

PKK supporters, who had erupted barricades in side streets to prevent access to remote areas of the town, attacked the police by hurling at stones, oil bombs and fireworks. Police responded with heavy fire.

An unspecific number of police officers were involved in the first operation, which was conducted following the Sunday's election. Many shopkeepers have taken down their shutters for security reason.

At least two people were reportedly injured in the clashes, still ongoing in the restive Yüksekova. They later died at Yüksekova hospital where they were admitted immediatelty after the incident.

They have been identified as Doğan D. And Çetin D. There is no clear report whether or not the victims were affiliated with YDG-H or they were the two local residents, who wounded during the exchange of fire.

“Shelters, bunkers and military positions in PKK camps in Zap, Metina, Gara, Avaşin-Basyan, Hakurk and the Qandil Mountains in Northern Iraq were hit by Turkish fighter jets in Northern Iraq," the Turkish General Staff said on its official site.

The PKK positions near the southeastern province of Hakkari was also targeted.

Troops found 300 bullets and various living materials in a shelter, discovered during a patrol mission near the southeastern province of Şırnak.

Security forces confiscated one gun, two chargers and an infantry rifle when they have searched a car, detaining two people, suspicious of having ties to the terrorist PKK in the Suruç town of Şanlıurfa.

The General Staff also declared that one man, suspected of being linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was seized in an attempt to cross into Turkey illegally from Syria.

In recent four months, Turkey has stepped up reprisal attacks against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, (PKK). A ceasefire in the long-running conflict with the armed group broke in July after the seperatist group resumed its campaign following the deadly suicide bombing in Suruç near the Syrian border.

Turkey's retaliatory strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq had begun on July 23, a day after two police officers were found dead at their home in Şanlıurfa, in the southeast, in an attack, which was later claimed by the outlawed organization.

Like Turkey, both the US and EU list the PKK as a terrorist organization. The PKK began a bloody campaign for a Kurdish-self-rule in the Southeast in the early 1980s. Some 40,000 people, including security forces and civilians, have been killed during the campaign.

Until August, the hospital had employed 50 medical staff including nine specialists, seven nurses and three practitioners . Almost all medics have quit in the last three months, while the number of medical staff has sharply dropped from 50 to 10. Initially, five of nine specialists resigned. The three others quit in the wake of the explosion that targeted the hospital on Thursday.

“Only one general surgeon has stayed in his post. The entire specialist staff including a dentist, pediatrician and an ENT doctor have quit after the attack," said a nurse from the emergency service.

“We are trying to cope with patients with only two nurses and three practicians. We are only dealing with patients in critical condition," she said. “When any non-critical patient is admitted, the patient is transferred to other hospitals."

The specialist at the hospital's orthopedic services was the first to abandon his position. The medics and nurses in the urology, pediatric, orthopedic and maternity services respectively left the hospital later.

In the last four months, Turkey has stepped up reprisals against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A ceasefire in the long-running conflict with the armed group broke in July after the separatist group resumed its campaign of violence following the deadly suicide bombing in Suruç, a town near the Syrian border.

Turkey's retaliatory strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq began on July 23, a day after two police officers were found dead at their home in Şanlıurfa, in the southeast, in an attack which was later claimed by the outlawed organization.

Like Turkey, both the US and EU list the PKK as a terrorist organization. The PKK began a bloody campaign for Kurdish self-rule in the Southeast in the early 1980s. Some 40,000 people, including security forces and civilians, have been killed in the conflict.

The PKK Wednesday staged an attack in which a bomb-laden vehicle destroyed a state hospital, a governorship office, police headquarters, dozens of houses, ten workplaces and several cars in the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari. Despite the severe damage, there were no casualties.

Hospital in southeastern Turkey targeted by PKK terrorists

"Regardless of the identity of the terrorist group who conducted the attack, we curse all violations that target our citizens' basic living space," said Nurhak Ensarioğlu, chair of the Diyabakır branch of the Health and Social Services Employee's Union (Sağlık-Sen).

"The recent terror attacks reached such a high level in the country that they even target hospitals, the safest places in the world, he said of Wednesday's attack.

Ömer Evsen, chair of the Religious Officials' Union (Diyanet-Sen) Diyarbakır branch, said that attacks on public places were contradictory to Islam as well as humanity and law.

Evsen said, attacks by terror groups wrought havoc on schools and religious places and now they attack hospitals. “These will not be beneficial to anyone," he said, adding that these type of places should not be attacked even during wartime.

Another NGO official from Mardin province also voiced against targeting hospitals. “Hospitals represent the common values of human beings. Bombing these values cannot be accepted."

İbrahim Homan, one of the local inhabitants, said he demanded peace and brotherhood, but “bombs continue to explode."

“They [PKK] continue their acts of violence despite declaring a truce earlier this month. The PKK's declarations of ceasefire don't have any formal value. They announce the single-part truce one day and stage a terror attack whenever they want," said Nurettin Tatar, head of the Nuh Eğitim-Der, a Şırnak-based association for Education Workers.

Citizens from Bingöl and Siirt also reacted to PKK violence. “They don't care about hospitals, schools, mosques, elders or kids. Even the truce is not important for them. They continue their presence by spreading violence among people in the region," said Abdulsamet Bayram, a citizen from Bingöl.

Wednesday's attack was not the first time the PKK has targeted government buildings and disrupted public services with terror attacks, especially in southeastern Turkey. They have bombed bridges, burned machines used for dam construction, attacked industrial areas, and destroyed many vehicles and trucks. PKK attacks have been blamed for the cancellation of multimillion-dollar projects in the underdeveloped southeastern region.

The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the EU and the US, intensified its armed violence this summer in a rash of attacks which killed over a hundred people, including civilians and security officials.

There were no casualties reported. The attack was conducted by detonating a bomb-laden vehicle at the center of the Şemdinli district, in the province of Hakkari.

The destruction caused by the explosion became visible early Thursday morning when officials started an investigation at the scene.

The state hospital, governorship office and police headquarters of the district were damaged as a result of the attack while dozens of houses, workplaces and cars were either fully or partially destroyed.

The three-floor district state hospital is reportedly out of service as the emergency room, baby delivery room, surgery compound and hemodialysis services were heavily damaged.

The terror group, which claims to defend Kurds' rights, also destroyed some apartments. Ten workplaces were rendered unusable in the fire that followed the explosion.

This is not the first time the PKK has targeted government buildings and disrupted public services with terror attacks, especially in southeastern Turkey.

They have bombed bridges, burned machines used for dam constructions, attacked industrial areas, and destroyed many vehicles and trucks.

PKK attacks have been blamed for the cancellation of million-dollar projects in the underdeveloped southeastern region.

The clashes sparked after the seperatist group members had attempted to infiltrate the military outpost simultaneously in the village of Aktütün on the country's border with Iraq on three different points, General Staff said on its official site.

The border units, guarded along the border, have prevented infiltration attempt by responding with heavy fire. Military sources suggest the number of slain terrorists is higher than reported previously, citing communications between PKK terrorists on radio-phones.

One PKK terrorist, armed with hand grenade and a small gun, was found dead during the most recent operations in rural parts of Hakkari province, the southeast. Troops also seized one machine gun, two gas cylinder, 122 ammunations, one raido-phone, 69 kalashnikovs during the operations.

One another PKK member turned himself on security forces with his kalashnikov, two hand grenades, several banned organisational documents as well as 251 ammunations.

Dozens of PKK strongholds, shelters and barracks were destroyed in the air attack, it detailed.

Two PKK militants surrender, one found dead

The armed forces statement said that two members of the separatist terrorist organization had surrendered to security forces on the same day.

Another militant was found dead in Yüksekova along with a Kalashnikov rifle, five full magazines, one RPG-7 rocket launcher, two hand grenades and one mortar shell.

Meanwhile, bomb attacks by the militant group targeting security officials as well as civilians occurred late Tuesday in two separate incidents in Hakkarı; 2 military officials were killed and several were wounded, including two citizens.

The governor's office said that the armored vehicles came under fire on their way to the No:4 military post in the central part of the city. Special operation forces responded with heavy fire to the attack. No casualty has been reported.

A wide-scale operation was launched to seize the PKK terrorists, who were involved in the attack on the first day of the Muslim holiday; the Feast of Sacrifice.

Somewhere else in the Kurdish southeast, PKK terrorists opened fire on the 2nd Border Battalion Command in Tekeli village standing on the border with Iraq and Iran, with long-barrelled guns. No military casualties were reported.

The attack, launched at around 8 a.m. near the district of Şemdinli, has prompted immediate retaliatory fire from the border post. The PKK terrorists were armed with a rocket propelled grenade launcher and other weapons, according to local sources. An operation was launched to seize the PKK terrorists, who are still on the run.

4 PKK terrorists seized, 7 PKK terrorists surrender at Habur

As the Turkish military announced the launching of further strikes on PKK bases in northern Iraq, seven PKK members handed themselves in, while 4 others were caught elsewhere in the Turkey's southeastern.

Turkish air forces launched airstrikes on the PKK targets, used as weapons ammunition storage, shelters and bunkers, said Turkey's Chief of Staff on its website.

Seven terrorists, who escaped from PKK bases in northern Iraq, turned themselves in to the border forces at Habur crossing, according to the statement, released on the official site of Turkey's Chief of Staff.

Four terrorists were also seized in different locations in Turkey's southeast. Two PKK terrorists were seized along with two guns and two hand grenades during the raids, targeting suspected terror hideouts in Nusaybin town, Mardin.

One PKK terrorist, armed with an automatic rifle, was caught in Uludere town near the southeastern province of Şırnak, while an unarmed PKK member was seized in Hakkari, another regional province.

In recent months, the separatist group has intensified its attacks targeting both security officers and civilians in the main Kurdish provinces. The PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization in Turkey, EU and the US, ended a 2-year-long ceasefire in early July and resumed its terror incidents. Officials said Turkey's retaliatory operations will continue until PKK terrorists law down weapons or leave the country.

The incident took place in the town of Daglica in Yuksekova district Sunday evening, as two armed vehicles belonging to Turkish soldiers were crossing. Security sources said there were several wounded and martyred soldiers.

However, there has been no official statement on the number of martyred soldiers yet.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to a private Turkish TV channel, ATV, said that the explosives used were mines. He stated that the fight against terror after this attack would continue with "much more determination".

An operation backed by helicopters was launched after the attack, in which 10 PKK targets were bombed by F-16 and F-14 aircrafts in southeastern Turkey, security sources said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is currently holding a security meeting in Ankara.

Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar, Interior Minister Selami Altinok and National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan are attending the meeting.

To protest this assault, thousands of people gathered in various provences of Turkey. People damned terrorism with a 500-car convoy in Eskişehir and a 150-car convoy in Tekirdağ. In İnegöl disrict of Bursa, a silent protest lasted one and half hour long. Also a large group of people marched to Military Command in Afyonkarahisar. About 1,500 protestors that gathered in Mersin closed off the Mersin-Antalya road to traffic and attacked an intercity bus heading toDiyarbakır.

Hundreds also gathered in Sivas, Gaziantep, and Düzce provinces on Sunday evening to protest terrorism. The crowds in all provinces held Turkish flags and shouted slogans such as “Martyrs are immortal, our land is indivisible."

Villages also said that has been no electiricity in the region for 25 days and they were not allowed to use the agricultural lands and fields due to the terrorists' interventions. Also it is learned that PKK terrorists exploded the GSM network of the region to cut residents' communication.

Villagers acclaimed soldiers that came to Mehendi region and thanked them at the end of the protest.

Turkish warplanes bombed firing positions, belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in southeast Turkey after the terrorists killed a soldier in the area early Wednesda. 20 terrorists in total, consisting of two groups of ten, were killed during the raids.

A group of PKK terrorists, armed with long-barrellled guns, opened fire at 7:05 a.m. on troops conducting searches on a road in the Semdinli district of Hakkari province, the General Staff said on its website.

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In a retaliatory act, one soldier was killed and two others were slightly injured and then taken to the hospital by a helicopter," it said.

Two F-16 fighter jets then destroyed the PKK's anti-aircraft weapon positions in the area, where drones, attack helicopters and military reinforcements are still operating.

Some 70 members of the Turkish security forces have been killed since PKK attacks began in early July. The state-run Anadolu Agency says more than 900 PKK terrorists have been killed in southeast Turkey and in Iraq since July 22.

The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984, and more than 40,000 people have since been killed.

According to initial reports, the PKK terrorists detonated a huge underground bomb while a military convoy was travelling near the village of Tekeli in the province bordering Iraq and Iran.

The injured soldiers were taken to Şemdinli Public Hospital.

Security officials launched a wide-range operation to capture the terrorists.

PKK militants have been targeting Turkish security forces and civilians after the terrorist group announced the termination of a two-year ceasefire last month.

After killing 2 police officers in their apartment on July 22, Turkish armed forces poured on top of PKK targets inside Turkey and Iraq, while police and gendarmerie launched a series of anti-PKK raids across the country.

Turkish security sources announced that at least 814 terrorists were killed and more than 500 were wounded in the month-long anti-terror operations.

Security forces have launched an operation against the terrorists, who closed the roads and dug ditches in the streets of many districts of Hakkari.

From time to time, clashes have been breaking out between the terrorists and security forces, the sound of weapons being heard in the city, PKK spread fear across provinces that many work places have been closed.

Meanwhile, eight Turkish soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the southeastern province of Siirt on Wednesday, when a roadside land mine was detonated by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants while the military convoy was passing by Siirt's Sirva district.

The PKK, which is considered a terrorist group by Turkey and much of the international community, including the United States and the European Union, has been involved in a separatist struggle with Turkey since the early 1980s.

Turkey blames the group for the deaths of thousands of people.

Police pointed the finger of blame at outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, members who opened fire on police in the Şemdinli district on Saturday.

The security forces also claimed to have killed four of the attackers, including a female assailant. Police said the attackers took the bodies of slain militants with them.

PKK members were also accused of detonating a bomb-laden vehicle in front of a gendarmerie station in the Tatvan district of the eastern province of Bitlis, wounding one private and a civilian, according to the Turkish General Staff.

The attacks come after three soldiers lost their lives in a landmine blast in Bingöl, eastern Turkey, on Saturday.

The Turkish General Staff confirmed that six other soldiers were injured in the explosion, which happened in the Karlıova district.

The military has blamed a “separatist terrorist organization" for the deaths.

The clashes began after a group of PKK terrorists opened fire on the security forces' officials who at the time were sweep searching the area, 45 kilometers from the Yüksekova district of the border province.

The wounded six soldiers, in critical condition, were taken to the hospital by helicopter.

More forces were sent to the area as a part of the reinforcement of security measures, while wide-range, air-supported operations were launched in the region.

The violence was the latest wave of terror attacks by the PKK terrorist groups since July 7, which killed at least 38 security personnel and 12 civilians including an Iranian national, and injured more than 135 people.

During the same period from July 7 to Aug. 13, the militant group set fire to more than 120 vehicles, while 40 militants were killed and 10 others wounded during clashes with security forces.

Moreover, Turkish air strikes against the PKK militants inside and outside the country killed nearly 390 suspected PKK members, including alleged senior figures, and injured over 400.

Two people were detained in the same region while another was detained in Turkey's southwest Aegean town of Bodrum on Monday.

The investigation is still ongoing, regional security officials confirmed.

Three soldiers were killed on Saturday afternoon by two masked men while they were in the town center dressed in civilian clothing, Interior Minister Efkan Ala told reporters on Saturday.

Sergeant Ramazan Gulle and Private Officers Yunus Yilmaz and Ramazan Kose were on duty in the Hakkari province's town of Yuksekova.

Special security forces raided multiple places on Sunday morning in connection with the ongoing investigation.

                  'PKK WAS HAVING A PANIC ATTACK'

Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan described the shooting of "civilian clothed, unarmed" people as "the biggest cowardice."

Akdogan also said the PKK was having a "panic attack" and accused it of disrupting the solution process, which was launched two years ago.

In addition, the outlawed PKK kidnapped three people Monday, including a village chief, in the Pervari town of Siirt province, located in the southeast, the regional gendarmerie said.

A group of armed terrorists came to Pervari's village of Yapraktepe and abducted three villagers: Abdulaziz Sevil, Esed Sevil and the village chief Hasan Ozay.

Security officials have started search and rescue efforts.

                                       SOLUTION PROCESS

The "solution process" is an effort, launched by the Turkish government two years ago, to bring an end to the decades-long conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, U.S., EU and NATO.

Nearly 40 people died in violent protests earlier this month, mainly in the heavily Kurdish-populated southeastern provinces.

Most casualties were caused by street clashes between rival Kurdish groups.

The protests broke out due to the alleged inaction of the Turkish government with regards to the ISIL besiegement of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, which is located near the Turkish border.

In a similar attack, three policemen in Bingol province were shot on Oct. 9, leaving two dead.

The alleged perpetrators were killed in armed clashes with security forces following the attack.