One Turkish lieutenant of the Turkish security forces and one civilian were killed and seven others injured on Monday in a clash with the rebels of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey on the Iraqi border, local newspaper Today's Zaman reported. The clash erupted while the Turkish security forces were conducting an operation against the PKK organization in Kazan Valley in Cukurca town of Hakkari province, according to the report. The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, took up arms in 1984 in an attempt to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey.