Five Turkish soldiers were killed in a mine blast in eastern Turkey’s Bitlis province and four other were wounded, the state Anatolian news agency said on Thursday. The soldiers were in a military vehicle when a mine exploded on a road. Mines placed by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have killed and injured many Turkish soldiers and civilians since 1984, when the PKK began an armed campaign to carve out an ethnic homeland from Turkey’s southeast. Full Story