One village guard was killed in a clash with the militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey Friday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.
During the clash with PKK militants in Mount Kato of the southeastern province of Sirnak, one village guard died, according to the report.
In a separate operation waged in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, security forces captured one PKK member, General Staffaired on its web-site later Friday.
Meanwhile, three PKK members surrendered to the Turkish security forces in the southeastern provinces of Hakkari and Sanliurfa, according to Anatolia.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source: Xinhua
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