Two rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in southeastern province of Sirnak, Turkish General Staff said in a statement issued on its website on Monday.
The General Staff said two PKK rebels were killed by Turkish Security Forces as they were trying to sneak into Turkey to carry out terrorist attacks, adding that the security forces seized two Kalashnikov rifles and their ammunition clips.
Meanwhile, the security forces seized seven other Kalashnikovs and 113 ammunition magazines in another operation carried out in mountainous areas of Sirnak, added the statement.
The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months. In February it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq.
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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