ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants opened fire on Turkish troops in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq on Monday, wounding one soldier, the military said, the first such incident since the rebels began withdrawing from Turkey under a peace process.
There were two bursts of gunfire in Uludere in Sirnak province just after noon (10:00 a.m. British time) and a Turkish Cobra attack helicopter was subsequently sent to the area, the Turkish military said in a statement.
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