By Xinhua
Diyarbakir, Turkey : Fifty kg of explosives were found in eastern Turkey in an operation against the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, Turkish sources told Xinhua.
The sources said that the operation was staged by the Turkish security forces near Ortachanak village of Bingl province and the Turkish troops found six shelters with explosives.
A total of 50 kg C-4 plastic explosives, one rocket-launcher, two kalashnikov rifles and some food were found during the operation in fight against the PKK in eastern and southeastern Turkey.
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.