One soldier killed in clash with PKK rebels in southern Turkey

One soldier of the Turkish security forces was killed and another injured in clashes with the rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southern Turkey on Monday, local Cihan news agency reported. The clash between Turkish security forces and the PKK members happened in the province of Osmaniye, the report said, adding that no further information was immediately available. Listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, the banned PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the PKK in the past over two decades.