By Seyhmus Cakan, Reuters, September 14, 2012

* Fighter jets scramble as offensive continues

* Top military commanders oversee operation

* Deadliest clashes for more than a decade

DIYARBAKIR  - Turkish armed forces have killed 75 Kurdish militants near the border with Iran and Iraq over the past week, a provincial governor said on Friday, as a major offensive involving air strikes and several thousand ground troops intensifies.

Eight F-16 fighter jets took off from an air base in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Friday, a Reuters witness said, apparently to support the operation against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

"Anti-terror operations are continuing in the region," the governor's office in the southeastern province of Hakkari said in a statement [....]

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Eight Turkish police killed in suspected PKK attack
Reuters, September 16, 2012

ISTANBUL - Eight Turkish police officers were killed and nine wounded when a roadside mine exploded in the Karliova district of Bingol in southern Turkey, security officials said on Sunday. The mine was detonated by suspected Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants as a police bus was passing, officials said.

Suspected Kurdish separatists killed four Turkish soldiers and wounded five in an attack on a military convoy near the border with Iran and Iraq on Saturday.

The governor's office in the southeastern province of Hakkari said Turkish armed forces had killed 123 Kurdish militants in the past ten days in a major offensive against PKK bases [....]