ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military said that one of its outposts in the southeastern town of Ceylanpinar bordering Syria came under rocket attack early on Friday from Syrian territory held by the Kurdish militia YPG.
The army returned fire, it said, killing 11 YPG militants. Military outposts in Turkey's Syria border area have come under intense fire over the past few days after Turkish warplanes have struck Kurdish militant PKK targets in Iraq's Sinjar and northeastern Syria.
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