By Xinhua
Ankara : Operations launched by the Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey to neutralize the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) are continuing, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Wednesday.
Reinforcement units have been dispatched to the region to join the operations that are underway in Bestler-Dereler region, Gabar, Kato and Kupeli mountains, according to the report.
It added that operations, backed by Sikorsky helicopters, particularly intensified along the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Turkey has been fighting with the PKK, which took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.
More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict between the Turkish army and the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and the United States.