ANKARA, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- One soldier of the Turkish security forces was killed and another one wounded in an attack staged by the militants of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, Turkish military said on Wednesday.

    A statement issued by the Turkish General Staff and posted on its website said the PKK militants opened fire at the Turkish security forces at a mountainous area in Hani town of Diyarbakir province on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the soldier dead and another injured.

    Turkey has conducted frequent air raids on suspected positions of the PKK in northern Iraq. In February, it also 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 southeast Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.