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Iran has asked its citizens to avoid traveling by land to Turkey after an attack in eastern Turkey left one Iranian dead.
“Based on recent movements and insecurity in Turkey’s east, the foreign ministry advises our citizens travelling to Turkey to avoid land routes until further notice and to use air routes,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement, according to French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The PKK announced last month that it was stepping up attacks, saying Turkish forces were violating a 2013 cease-fire. Turkey began an air campaign against PKK camps in northern Iraq on July 24.
On Saturday, a Turkish police officer was killed in a PKK attack in Mardin. On Friday evening, militants fired a rocket at an armored car in the town of Cizre, killing a police officer and wounding another. The wounded officer later died on Saturday.