Kurdish guerrillas of HPG laid an overnight ambush on a mobile military outpost in Çukurca district of Hakkari in which 30 Turkish soldiers were killed. While the outpost was destroyed completely the guerrillas seized military ordnance.

It is reported that the ambush started at 01:30 and the special commando forces from Kayseri based 30 km far from Çukurca town centre were targeted. While 30 soldiers were killed in the attack heavy weapons like shell and howitzer launchers were also destroyed.

Kayseri commando forces were deployed in the region recently and they are notorious for village destructions and human rights abuses against civilians which they carried out in the Kurdish region in 1990’s.

HPG forces also stated that the helicopters which came to the area after the ambush were also targeted and they had to fly back without landing. It is also reported that the clashes in Uzundere region are continuing and HPG is expected to make another statement regarding the details of the ambush.