Prime Minister Erdoğan said only about 20 percent of militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers Party have withdrawn, and that Turkey will continue operations against the group until it lays down arms. Three more suspects in the Reyhanli car bombing were arrested; a total of 32 have been detained. A Turkish soldier will be tried as a terrorist for allegedly leaking intelligence documents showing the government knew of a plan by the Al Nusrah Front to execute a car bomb attack possibly in Turkey; some 53 civilians were killed in an attack at Reyhanlı on May 11. The soldier’s family claims he is being tortured. Turkish troops at a border post in Mardin returned fire from gunmen in Syria.
