At least six rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) were killed in a clash with the Turkish Armed Forces in eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolianews agency reported on Saturday.
The six people were killed in a clash erupted near border area with Iran in eastern Turkish province of Van on Saturday, which also injured three others.
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 30,000people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source:Xinhua
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