Eight Turkish soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the southeastern province of Siirt. Seven more soldiers were wounded.<br /><br /> No one has claimed responsibility, but the army has blamed Kurdish Workers Party militants for the attack.<br /><br /> It marks another deadly assault in a surge in violence after a two-year long ceasefire unraveled last month.<br /><br /> The sense of instability was heightened after gunmen fired at Turkish police outside a palace in Istanbul.<br /><br /> According to the governor’s office two members of a ‘terrorist group’ armed with hand grenades and an automatic rifle were caught after the attack.<br /><br /> In the last 44 days 55 security personel have been killed in Turkey.<br /><br /> The unrest comes weeks after it declared a ‘war on terror’, opening up its airbases to the US-led coaltion against ISIL militants as well as arresting more than 2,000 suspected members of radical Kurdish and Islamist groups.
