By Xinhua,
Ankara : Two Turkish soldiers were killed in an operation staged against the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party(PKK) in southeastern Turkey on Friday, the General Staff said in a statement.
Two soldiers were killed in a clash with PKK rebels in Mount Cudi region in southeastern province of Sirnak on Friday, said the statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Turkish army hit PKK camps in Hakurk region of northern Iraq. A group of armed PKK rebels were also spotted and “neutralized” by fire from aircraft of the air forces on the same day as they were trying to enter the Turkish territory.
The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in northern Iraq during the past few months. In February it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with an aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.