A Turkish soldier has died on Sunday in clashes with Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry said in a statement.
On June 17, Turkey launched an air and ground offensive against the PKK, which has fought an armed campaign against the Turkish state since 1984 and which is listed as a “terrorist” group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Turkey says the PKK is responsible for the death of more than 40,000 people during three decades of fighting.
Turkey regularly attacks PKK fighters, both in its mainly Kurdish southeast and in northern Iraq, where the group is based.