Three Turkish soldiers killed by PKK in southeast

Three Turkish soldiers were killed Sunday in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the extreme southeastern Hakkari province neighbouring Iraq, state-run Anadolu news agency said.

The soldiers had been protecting a road building team in the Daglica district of the province close to the Iraqi border, it added. One soldier was wounded in the attack, which was carried out by a guided rocket, it said.

The authorities are still battling the three-decade insurgency of the PKK which initially took up arms for a separate state but now demands more autonomy.

Ankara backed peace talks in the early years of the decade but a ceasefire collapsed in 2015 and there have been deadly clashes ever since.