Six Kurdish separatists were killed and three wounded in fighting with Turkish soldiers in south-east Turkey, DPA quoted semi-official Anadolu news agency as reporting on Saturday. Anadolu reported that operations were launched after intelligence that a man from the village of Guvendik near the Turkish border with Iran had been kidnapped by guerrillas from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and that the man was being taken to Iran. Six Kurdish rebels were killed and three wounded in the clash. The report said that the kidnapped man had been shot dead by the PKK rebels. Clashes between the Turkish army and the PKK have been sporadic since the army launched a week-long cross-border incursion into northern Iraq in February in a bid to destroy PKK camps.
