Turkey clashes with PKK, 1 dead

One member of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) was killed and seven others captured during clashes with security forces in eastern Turkey early Thursday, the private Dogan news agency reported. Clashes erupted between the Turkish security forces and a group of PKK militants at Suduragi village in Karliova town of Bingol province, leaving one PKK rebel killed and seven others injured, said the report. A large-scale operation was launched in fight against PKK rebels in this region, the report added. Listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, the PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. More than 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the PKK during the past over two decades.