ANKARA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- One Turkish police officer was killed and another wounded by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks on an armored vehicle in Southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Friday, Dogan News Agency reported.
Two militants from PKK also have been killed following a clash between the two sides that was precipitated by a militant attack on an armored vehicle in the Nusaybin district of Mardin on Friday morning.
The militants attacked the armored vehicle as it was patrolling in the Selahaddin Eyyubi neighborhood of Nusaybin, killing a police officer and wounding another. Two militants were also killed at the scene. Operations of Anti-PKK in the area are ongoing.
Over 500 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq since last July.
More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started anti-government attacks.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
