ANKARA, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 14 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed in an anti-terror operation in Tunceli province of eastern Turkey on Sunday.
Local gendarmerie launched an operation against PKK militants in Kutuderesi region in the early morning, engaging in an armed clash with the militants, the Tunceli governor's office said in a statement.
Fourteen PKK terrorists were killed and their ammunitions were seized, read the statement.
One soldier was wounded in the clash with PKK, the statement said.
The operation is continuing with the support of Cobra helicopters firing shots on militants' potential escape routes.
On Friday, six PKK terrorists were killed during a Turkish military operation in northern Iraq, Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement.
Two other terrorists were captured Friday in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari and Batman provinces during the ongoing operations and road checks in the region, according to the statement.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU, resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July 2015 after a brief reconciliation period.
