Suspected Kurdish militants have fired four rockets at Diyarbakir Airport in southeast Turkey, according to reports.

Passengers and airport staff were taken inside the airport's terminal building for their safety, Dogan news agency said.

The target was a police checkpoint outside the VIP lounge, the agency added, and broadcaster NTV said the rockets landed on wasteland nearby.

There were no casualties and Diyarbakir governor Huseyin Aksoy said there was no disruption to flights.

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Diyarbakir is home to a large Kurdish population, in a region where Kurdish militants have waged an insurgency for more than 30 years.


Elsewhere, the Turkish military says it has suffered its first loss of life since it began its incursion into northern Syria.

A soldier was killed by Kurdish fighters, who claimed they destroyed three tanks.

On Sunday, Turkey renewed attacks by warplanes and artillery on targets held by Kurdish-backed forces.

Unconfirmed reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is monitoring the war, said Turkish attacks killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more in the village of Jub al-Kousa.

It also claimed that Turkish-backed Syrian rebels had captured two villages from the Kurds.

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Turkey has said its ongoing campaign is against Islamic State, and is also aimed at stopping Kurdish forces extending the territory they control.

On Saturday, Turkey said Kurdish-backed forces had been beaten back just to the south of Diyarbakir in northern Syria,

Meanwhile, on the ground, Turkish-backed Syrian rebels battled rebels aligned to the Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) near Jarablus.

A Kurdish-led self-proclaimed government of northern Syria said Turkish tanks were deployed, but Turkey's rebel allies denied the charge.

Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes crossed the border into Syria last week to join Syrian rebels as part of a drive to remove Islamic State militants from Jarablus.

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But, as the Turks and their allies have consolidated their positions, some have raised concerns that the push into Jarablus would be used as a bridgehead to take on Kurdish-allied forces that have occupied positions in northern Syria.

The primarily Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) said Turkey's military had fired on a village near Kobani on Friday night (about 20 miles east of Jarablus), and had also used heavy weapons to fire on YPG positions in the northwestern province of Afrin (about 65 miles west of Jarablus).

Turkey wants to stop Kurdish forces taking control of a line of territory along its southern border, fearing it could be used to support Kurdish militant group PKK.

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have already seized five villages near Jarablus from Islamic State.

The SDF and YPG are backed by the United States, putting Ankara at odds with its NATO ally.

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The Jarablus Military Council, which is part of the SDF, called the airstrikes "a dangerous escalation", and said the Turkish warplanes had caused civilian casualties.

A spokesman for the council said: "Turkish jets have this morning bombarded our positions in southern Jarablus and the Til-Emarne village. With this aggression, a new conflict period will begin in the region."

Turkey said it had destroyed an arsenal and command post belonging to "terror groups".

Ankara has previously warned that the YPG has failed to stick to a US promise that the militia would withdraw to positions east of the Euphrates river.

That followed the seizure of the town of Manbij from IS earlier this month.