Turkish Security Officer Killed In PKK Attack In Country's Southeast - Reports

A Turkish security officer was killed in the country's southeastern province of Sirnak on Wednesday in an attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is considered by Ankara to be a terrorist organization, local media reported, citing a security source

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 20th March, 2019) A Turkish security officer was killed in the country's southeastern province of Sirnak on Wednesday in an attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is considered by Ankara to be a terrorist organization, local media reported, citing a security source.

According to the source cited by the Anadolu news agency, an improvised explosive device, planted by a PKK member, went off when Turkish security forces were carrying out a search operation in the Silopi district.

Another security officer was reportedly injured and taken to a hospital while the security forces continued to conduct their operation.

Turkey has been in conflict with the PKK, which seeks to establish a Kurdish autonomy in Turkey, since the 1980s. The PKK and Ankara agreed on a ceasefire in 2013, but it collapsed after just two years following a number of terror attacks that were allegedly carried out by the Kurdish group.

Since then, Turkish security forces have regularly carried out anti-PKK raids across the country and conducted airstrikes against the group in northern Iraq.