One soldier, 6 PKK militants killed in Turkey southeast
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Turkish anti-riot police officers accompany men to fetch belongings from their homes in the historical district in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on May 5, 2016.
A Turkish soldier and six members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed during a series of violent clashes in the country's volatile southeast, military sources say.
According to Turkish military sources, Turkish security forces on Sunday clashed with the PKK militants operating across the largely Kurdish-populated southeast.
The military, however, did not mention the exact location of the fierce fighting.
This came days after six Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in clashes with the militants in the Kurdish majority province of Hakkari on Friday. A military helicopter that had been sent to the region to support the soldiers crashed later in the day and its two pilots were killed.
The Turkish military has launched a large-scale military campaign against PKK militants in its southern border region since last year. The government has imposed curfew in the areas that have been targeted in the army’s anti-PKK campaign.
The Turkish military has also been conducting offensives against the positions of the group in northern Iraq and Syria.
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