Four militants of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed during an operation staged by the Turkish security forces in southeastern Turkey, local Cihan news agency reported on Tuesday.
The report said that a clash took place between a group of PKK members and the Turkish security forces that were staging the operation against the PKK in Guneydogu town of Sirnak province on Monday.
The security forces called for "surrender" to the PKK members during the operation, but the PKK members answered by opening fire against the security forces, said the report, adding the four PKK militants were killed during the clash.
It added that the operation was still underway in pursuit of other PKK members who escaped the clash.
In addition, 22 PKK members were killed in operations staged by the security forces in eastern and southeastern Turkey between September 18 and 24, added the report.
The PKK, a Kurdish group in Turkey aiming at an independence Kurdistan state, 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.
The group 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.
Source: Xinhua
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