ANKARA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- One Turkish soldier was killed when militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) staged an attack on a police outpost in eastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.

    Cem Havale Soldier died when the PKK rebels opened fire on the police outpost in Elazig province on Saturday, Elazig Governor Muammer Musmal was quoted as saying.

    A comprehensive operation has been launched and it continued in the province, Musmal said.

    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 southeast Turkey. About 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.