Soldier killed, six injured in Turkey car bomb blast

One soldier has been killed and six others injured in a car bomb attack on their outpost in south-eastern Turkey, the state-run news agency said.

The Anadolu Agency said Kurdish rebels detonated an explosives-packed vehicle outside a gendarmerie station in Mardin province.

It blamed the attack on "terrorists" linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. Ankara and its Western allies designate the group as a terrorist organisation.

Turkey's south-east was plunged into conflict last summer when a fragile peace process between the state and autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels broke down.

Since then, the army has carried out significant military operations in predominantly Kurdish districts, displacing tens of thousands of people.

The PKK has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state in a conflict that has claimed 40,000 lives.