ANKARA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another one wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey on Thursday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

    A group of PKK rebels attacked the Security Forces in Beytussebap town of southeastern province of Sirnak on Wednesday night, thus sparkling the clash, said the report, adding that the clash continued until early morning on Thursday.

    Operations are going on in the area to find the runaway PKK rebels, added the report.

    The Turkish military has periodically bombed and shelled suspected PKK positions in Turkish-Iraqi border area during the past few months. In February it launched an eight-day ground incursion into Iraq.

    The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.