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In what could herald the start of a fierce new season of fighting between government troops and Kurdish insurgents, a roadside bombing Wednesday in southeast Turkey killed nine soldiers.
The attack, aimed at a convoy traveling a mountainous road, caused the largest single-incident death toll this year for the Turkish military, which has waged a decades-long struggle with fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.
The rebels claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place near the town of Lice in Diyarbakir province. Officials described the device as crude but powerful, strong enough to penetrate a tank and an armored vehicle traveling in the convoy.
A 10th Turkish soldier was killed in fighting elsewhere in the...