A soldier of the Turkish security forces was killed in a clash with the militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.
The clash erupted between the security forces patrolling in rural area near the town of Genc in Bingol province and a group of PKK militants on Thursday, said the report.
It added that the PKK militants opened fire on the security forces who asked them to surrender, leaving Private Emrah Gocer killed.
Earlier in the day, a land-mine explosion in the neighboring
Erzincan province killed a soldier and injured another one.
The PKK was listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
Ankara blames the banned group for triggering a two-decade-long strife that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since it launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984.
Source: Xinhua
|
Comment
Tell A Friend
Print Format
Save Article