Two PKK militants killed in southeastern Turkey

Turkish security forces killed two militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in a clash in southeastern Turkey, an official statement said on Saturday.

Security forces encountered a group of PKK militants during an operation in Kupeli Mountain in Sirnak province and killed two of them on Friday, the governor's office said in a statement.

Meanwhile, a Turkish soldier died of wound on Saturday morning sustained in an operation on Friday in Gurpinar town of eastern Turkey's Van province, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

The PKK, listed as a terror group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, called off in 2004 a six-year unilateral ceasefire in its armed campaign for an independent Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey.

Source: Xinhua