The PKK terrorists were killed during operations on Friday and early Saturday in the southeastern province of Şırnak, the military statement added.
The soldier died in Hakkari, another terror-hit province bordering both Iran and Iraq, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. Some PKK members operate from bases in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq.
The PKK ended a six-month cease-fire in February and there have been fears of rising violence before a parliamentary election on June 12 that is expected to result in a comfortable third successive victory for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
Jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan has threatened “war” unless the government enters talks after the election to end a separatist conflict that has dragged on for 27 years, killing more than 40,000 people.
The PKK last week claimed responsibility for an ambush that killed a police officer and wounded another in the northern Black Sea province of Kastamonu after an election rally by Erdoğan, and two more police were killed this week.
The PKK says police have been attacked in retaliation for operations and arrests in the Southeast. Erdoğan has accused the PKK of being behind several Molotov cocktail attacks on the offices of his AK Party.
