Turkey: Southeast Turkey clashes between Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants and army leave 15 dead
Thirteen Kurdish militants and two Turkish soldiers have been killed during two days of fighting in restive southeastern Turkey, officials say.
The militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed on Monday when a firefight broke out in the town of Idil, which has been under a round-the-clock curfew since February 16 in an effort to root the rebels out.
The military said on Sunday a soldier had been killed in Idil. On Monday it said a soldier had been killed by a sharpshooter in Sur, a historic district in Diyarbakir, the largest city of the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Sur is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and its monuments have been badly damaged since a curfew was imposed on December 2, photographs have shown.