| Turkish troops killed three Kurdish militants and arrested one in a four-day military operation in southeast Turkey, a military source said on Sunday. Two soldiers were wounded in the clashes in the southeastern provinces of Tunceli, Siirt, Sirnak and Bingol, once a stronghold of Kurdistan Workers Party separatists, and the operation is still under way, the source said. More than 30,000 people, most of them Kurds, died in three decades of armed conflict between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey, but the PKK said it would focus on political means to achieve its goals after the arrest and imprisonment of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1999. |