(KUNA) -- Two members of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) were killed Saturday and one Turkish soldier was injured during clashes in southeast of the country. NTV, a local news station in Turkey, said in its website that the clashes occurred in Polomor town an area in Tunceli province southeast Turkey. The number of PKK casualties went up by eight since the military, which lost one solider, launched its offensive three days ago. Since the clashes between the PKK and the Turkish government started in the 1980s, up to 37,000 people, most of them Kurds, died in their efforts to establish a state in southeast area of Turkey.