By Xinhua
Ankara : Two members of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed during an operation conducted by Turkish security forces in Eruh town of Siirt province in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.
The PKK militants were high-level members of the PKK which previously waged an attack to the Gabar Mountain of southeastern province of Sirnak, according to the report.
A statement issued by the Turkish General Staff on Saturday said the Turkish security forces took a military operation in fight against a group of PKK members at Turkish-Iraqi border.
“Upon intelligence on Dec. 1, a group of 50-60 terrorists were detected inside Iraqi territory in southeast of Cukurca town of southeastern province of Hakkari,” the statement said.
Security operations are underway in southeastern and eastern Turkey as 100,000 Turkish troops massed at Turkish-Iraqi borders in preparations for a possible cross-border operation to crush about 3,000-strong PKK rebels.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.