ANKARA, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Two Turkish soldiers were wounded when rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) opened fire on a military vehicle in the northeastern Turkey on Friday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

    Noncommissioned officer Bulent Ozsoy and sergeant Taner Sensoy, who were wounded in the attack staged near Dereli town of Giresun province, were taken to a hospital for medical treatment, according to 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 in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast Turkey. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.