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ANKARA, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Five Turkish soldiers were killed and eight others wounded on Wednesday in attacks blamed on Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the country's southeastern provinces, Dogan News Agency reported.
Suspected PKK militants attacked a military base in Lice district of Diyarbakir province, killing four soldiers and injuring at least eight others early Wednesday.
In Karliova, a county in Bingol province, one soldier was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack by suspected PKK militants.
Air operations have been launched to capture the perpetuators, Dogan said.
Over 600 members of Turkish security forces and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations inside Turkey and in northern Iraq since July 2015, according to local media.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
