Two Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting with Kurdish gunmen in a southeastern town near the Iraqi border on Wednesday.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting with Kurdish gunmen in a southeastern town near the Iraqi border on Wednesday, the army said.

"Two hero comrades fell as martyrs during clashes that erupted after an operation" in Yuksekova, the army said on its website, adding that one soldier was also wounded.

Violence has flared again between Turkish security forces and members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) since a weekend election that returned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party to power.

Erdogan said earlier Wednesday there would be "no break" in the military campaign against what Turkey and the West consider a terrorist group.

Turkish warplanes bombed PKK targets in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq on Monday and Tuesday, the first such action since the election.

Four militants were also been killed in clashes this week with Turkish security forces in the Kurdish-majority southeast.

Meanwhile, police detained 22 people on Wednesday in an operation against the urban wings of the PKK in Istanbul and in the southern province of Adana, local media reported.

The government said Tuesday that conditions were not yet ripe to resume peace talks with the Kurdish militants which collapsed after a fresh outbreak of violence in July.