UPDATE - Rockets fired into southeastern Türkiye, injuring 8 security personnel

UPDATES WITH NUMBER OF INJURED; CHANGES HEADLINE; EDITS THROUGHOUT

By Cebrail Caymaz and Seda Sevencan

KILIS, Türkiye (AA) – At least eight security personnel, including seven police officers, were injured on Sunday by an apparent terrorist rocket attack into southeastern Türkiye near a border gate into northern Syria, according to the Turkish Interior Ministry.

The rocket fired by members of the YPG/PKK terror group in Tal Rifat, northern Syria, hit a Police Special Operations station located at the Kilis Oncupinar Border Gate in the Kilis province. The terrorist YPG/PKK has illegal hideouts across the border in northern Syria – a region partially under opposition control, and partially under terrorist control – where they plan attacks on Turkish soil.

A large number of ambulances and security forces were dispatched to the Kilis border region.

​The attack came after Türkiye announced early Sunday that it had launched an air operation against the PKK/YPG terror group in both northern Syria and northern Iraq, where the terrorist PKK also has bases.

The operation follows last Sunday's terror attack on Istanbul's crowded Istiklal Avenue that killed at least six people and left 81 injured.

The Turkish government said the attack was carried out by the terrorist group PKK/YPG.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the US and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG is the terror group's Syrian offshoot.