Turkey is going to build a 70-kilometer wall along the border near eastern Agri Province and Igdir Province, and will also close the rest of border with lights, towers and iron fences, the official said.
More than 1,200 victims, including security force personnel and civilians, have lost their lives since the PKK - listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the USA, and European Union - resumed its decades-old armed campaign in July 2015.
Dubbed the "Turkish Wall" by the local media drawing comparisons to the Great Wall of China, the concrete blocks that straddle the 900-kilometer (559-mile) long border are being patrolled by troops.
The Turkish Defense Ministry reported that the Syrian border wall was completed in late April.
Annual contrabands, mainly textiles, are estimated to worth almost $2 billion.
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In Valencia, where the man died, some areas looked like disaster zones with bars on shop windows bent and windows broken. Opposition leaders say the constituent assembly is a biased mechanism created to keep an unpopular leader in power.
The Syrian border wall, which is 826 km long and created to stop migrants, fighters, and potential terrorists from entering Turkey, is now over two-thirds complete.
Turkey is anxious that gains made by Iraq's Shiite-majority government, which is friendly with Iran, only serve to expand Tehran's influence over Sunni areas in northern Iraq.
The Iranian official further said the Islamic Republic has no problem with Turkey adopting a new measure in the Iranian-Turkish border as part of what Ankara describes as security strategies.
In 2011, Iran threatened to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, an offshoot of the PKK. Will the quest for influence in Iraq's Sunni heartland lead to greater turbulence between Ankara and Tehran? Iran backs the government of President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey has backed elements of the Syrian opposition.
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