A pick-up truck laden with explosives made a “suicide rush” at a military checkpoint yesterday, according to the Turkish prime minister IHA via APTurkey’s prime minister has launched a military operation against Kurdish militants who he claimed detonated a car bomb yesterday outside a gendarmerie checkpoint in southeast Turkey which killed ten soldiers and eight civilians. Binali Yildirim told a press conference in Istanbul: “For the stability of our country, we will continue doing everything we can to save our homeland and our nation from the forces of terrorism.”The bomb exploded at about 9.45am local time in the Semdinli district of Hakkari Province, approximately 48 miles from the Iraqi border, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Mr Yildirim said that a pick-up…

Source: The Times October 10, 2016 07:52 UTC