Turkey: Turkish forces kill 15 kurdish women fighters
Fifteen rebel Kurds, all of them women, were killed in fighting with Turkish security forces in the southeast of the country, the Turkish interior ministry has said.
The clashes took place in a rural area of Bitlis province, a centre of the armed rebellion being waged by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to a statement carried by the official Anatolia news agency on Saturday.
A local security source said the Kurd separatist movement had a number of women-only units and that one of these had been wiped out.
The ministry statement also said a member of a local Kurdish force armed by Turkey was killed and three others wounded in the fighting.