Shafaq News / A Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded, in the southeast of the country, in a shooting that came from the Iranian side of the border, according to a statement issued by the Turkish Ministry of Defense on Wednesday.

The ministry indicated that the soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission, in the border town of Yuxikova in Hakkâri province, in southeastern Turkey.

Turkey has been fighting PKK militants on its borders with Syria and Iraq for decades.