More than 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group have been killed or wounded in clashes with Turkish army forces in the restive southeastern part of the country, Milliyet newspaper reported.
Turkish military said in a statement on Saturday that over 100 PKK militants had been “neutralized” during the clashes, without specifying how many were killed and how many wounded.
The casualty toll from Saturday’s clashes was one of the highest in a single day of the conflict in recent years.
Turkish 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 soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded during a clean-up operation against the PKK in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Saturday morning.