Two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 were wounded in a suicide bombing blamed on militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
A suicide bomber drove a tractor laden with explosives up to a military station in the Dogubayazit district of the eastern Agri province, the official Anatolia news agency reported.
The soldiers were deployed with the local Jandarma (Gendarmerie), a branch of the army which looks after internal security in Turkey.
The attack was blamed on the PKK, which has stepped up attacks against the security forces in the last days as Turkish warplanes bomb its positions in northern Iraq.
In a separate incident also blamed on the PKK, one Turkish soldier was killed and four wounded early this morning when a mine exploded as their convoy was travelling on a road in the Midyat district of the Mardin province in southeastern Turkey, Anatolia said.
The PKK's insurgency for greater rights and powers for Turkey's Kurdish minority has claimed tens of thousands of lives since it began more than 30 years ago.
