The human cost of the spiralling violence is beginning to be felt in Turkey.<br /><br /> Relatives have gathered to mourn a soldier killed when militants attacked a military base in Sirnak on Monday. <br /><br /> The sorrowful scene is being repeated elsewhere. The victim was one of at least nine people who died on Monday in a wave of attacks on the security forces.<br /><br /> Fighting talk<br /><br /> Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his government will not rest until the terrorist threat is eradicated:<br /><br /> “Preventing guns being fired is not enough,” the Turkish President said in a speech. “Weapons should be put down and buried. I insist on this. Our fight will continue until not one terrorist is left within our borders and their weapons have been covered with concrete.”<br /><br /> The US Consulate in Istanbul opened its doors to the public a day after a gunfight between police and militants.<br /><br /> The Kurdish PKK has said it was behind the separate bombing of a police station nearby in which four people died.<br /><br /> #UPDATE Turkish war planes ca
