PKK kills one, injures four Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey
A Turkish soldier has been killed in an attack launched by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey.
The Kurdish militants fired shots and rockets at a military post near the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.
Five soldiers were injured in the attack. One of them succumbed to his injuries in hospital while four others survived their wounds.
Two Kurdish militants were also killed in the ensuing clashes.
Meanwhile, there are reports of other clashes between Turkish police and thousands of people who attended the funeral of senior PKK member Baris Tekce in the eastern city of Hakkari.
Tekce was killed a day earlier in an attack by a Turkish helicopter gunship during an operation in Hakkari.
Ankara has recently launched a wave of airstrikes against purported PKK positions in Iraq, and on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to press on with a campaign against the PKK.
“We will continue our fight until weapons are laid down... and not one single terrorist remains within our borders," Erdogan said in a televised speech in the capital Ankara.
The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since the 1980s. A shaky ceasefire between Anakara and the PKK that had stood since 2013 was declared null and void by the militants following the Turkish airstrikes against the group.
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