A Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militant was killed in a clash with Turkish security forces in eastern province Igdir, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.
Acting on a tip-off, the security forces launched an operation against the militants of the outlawed PKK and killed a PKK member in Aralik town of Igdir province on Monday morning, said the report.
In separate incident, three soldiers of the security forces were injured after a landmine, planted by PKK members, exploded in southeastern Sirnak province, said the report.
The PKK has increased attacks on Turkish troops in southeastern Turkey in recent months, which led to rising Turkish demands for an incursion into northern Iraq to crush the rebels based there.
The group, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched an armed campaign for an ethnic homeland in the mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey in 1984, sparking decades of strife that has claimed more than 30, 000 lives.
Source: Xinhua
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