Turkish security forces on Tuesday killed five members of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, a Turkish military statement said.
The statement posted on its web site said the five PKK members, included two women, were killed during the operation in the Kupeli mountains in Sirnak province in southeastern Turkey.
According to the statement, a group of PKK militants had been recognized by Turkish soldiers and the military operation started with helicopters attacks.
In the morning, Turkish security forces also exchanged fire with Kurdish rebels, and security forces found six rifles, some explosives and mobile phones in a collapsed base, according to the statement.
Earlier in the day, the military said its warplanes had killed about 150-175 PKK militants in the military operations in northern Iraq on Dec. 16.
On Dec. 16, Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes at some villages near the border in the Qandil mountains, which was reported then to have killed one woman and wounded six other people.
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. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source: Xinhua
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