One Turkish soldier was killed on Saturday in clashes with militants from the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, according to the Defence Ministry in Ankara. Clashes with the PKK in Iraq’s north have intensified since December. Two soldiers were separately injured on Saturday after “harrasment fire” by the PKK, the ministry announced on its website. Turkey has military bases and is waging an ongoing offensive in the region, where the PKK is headquartered. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK, which …