Kurdish rebels step up attacks in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's state-run television says Kurdish rebels have killed one soldier and wounded 10 others in an attack in the country's southeast.

TRT says on Friday that the rebels attacked a military outpost near the town of Eruh in Sirt province as the soldiers were breaking fast on Thursday evening.

The Turkish troops have been engaged in a major clash with Kurdish rebels, who are fighting for autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast Turkey.

Ankara fears that the rebels are likely to use the civil war in Syria to set up bases in that country.

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