| (KUNA) -- Two Kurdish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants, Turkish military forces announced on Friday. The clashes occurred during a wide-scale Turkish offensive against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) south east of Turkey. Turkey has resorted to the use of commandos, with the intension of obliterating any future PKK rebel attacks on Turkish land. Turkey has previously undergone ground and air offensives on PKK targets in Iraqi-Kurdistan. The PKK is held accountable by Turkey, for more than 37,000 deaths, since it started its attacks on Turkey in 1984, planned to establish an independent Kurdish state north east of Turkey. |