REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ANKARA -- Eight people, including one soldier, were killed in the clashes between Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, according to the Turkish General Staff on Saturday.
Turkish General Staff said in a press release that the soldier, who was heavily wounded in an armed attack in Cizre district in Sirnak province, died at hospital.
Seven members of the separatist terrorist organization were killed in Saturday's operations, the statement said.
The Turkish General Staff released a written statement on Friday, revealing that 524 PKK militants have been killed in the Cizre and Sur districts in the ongoing anti-PKK operations since early December last year.
Since then, more than 200 members of the security forces died and thousands of PKK militants were killed in clashes across Turkey and northern Iraq.
The PKK, considered as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the EU, resumed its armed campaign against the Turkish state in late July 2015.
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