TURKEY STEPS UP MEASURES AT OIL PIPELINES AFTER PKK ATTACKS
Baku, June 22 (AZERTAC). Turkey has stepped up anti-terrorist measures along the oil pipelines in the country in the wake of recent PKK attacks, Turkish energy minister said on Tuesday.
Taner Yildiz told reporters that security measures had been tightened against threats of sabotage along Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Kirkuk-Yumurtalik crude oil pipelines.
Strict security measures came after the PKK threatened that it would intensify attacks in the country. Recent attacks killed 11 Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey at the weekend and a roadside bomb rocked a bus carrying military personnel and their families in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul on Tuesday, killing four and wounding twelve.
Taner Yildiz said Turkish security forces were working together with private security teams for safe transport of oil through pipelines passing from eastern and southeastern parts of the country.
"I do not think we will have a problem," Yildiz said.
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