Ankara is planning to build a wall along the border with Iran claiming to prevent the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants from entering the country's territory, pro-government columnist Abdulkadir Selvi wrote in the Hürriyet daily on Monday, citing an official.
Militants movements from Iran to Turkey have never been so numerous as to create a major security problem.
"The PKK has the Maku, Dambat, Navur, Kotr, Keneresh and Sehidan camps inside Iran near the Turkish border. There are some 800-1,000 PKK terrorists in those camps. They enter Turkey, carry out attacks and leave ... As a precaution against this, we are going to build a wall along 70 kilometres of the border near Ağrı and [the eastern province of] Iğdır," the official said, as quoted by the newspaper.
The rest of the border, which will be equipped with lights, will be closed with towers and iron fences, the official added. The highway in the eastern province of Tunceli will be placed under round-the-clock surveillance, according to the newspaper.
Turkey previously built a wall along the Syrian border.
