Over 100 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were either killed or wounded in clashes with Turkish security forces on Saturday, the military said. It was one of the highest casualty tolls in a single day of the conflict in recent years.
The military said in a statement that more than 100 PKK militants had been “neutralized” in clashes without specifying how many were killed and how many wounded. Most had been taken back to northern Iraq, where the PKK has mountain camps.
Security forces suffered a bloody 24 hours after 13 soldiers and a village guardsman were killed in three separate incidents in the country’s east and southeast, blamed on Kurdish militants.
Three Turkish soldiers were killed during an operation against militia forces from the outlawed PKK in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Saturday morning, Anadolu reported.
Another 20 soldiers were wounded, three of whom seriously injured in the incident close to the border with northern Iraq, the agency said.
Another eight soldiers were killed during clashes with the “separatist terror organization,” which authorities use to refer to the PKK, in the eastern province of Van on Friday, the governor’s office said.
Eight soldiers were also injured in the same operation, the office said in a statement. And late on Friday, two soldiers and a village guard were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mardin in the restive southeast blamed on the PKK, the agency reported.

Source: Arab News