Two bomb blasts in southeast Turkey have left at least ‘three dead’ and ‘dozens wounded’
Kurdish militant group PKK have been blamed for the horrifying attacks
BOMB blasts in two cities in southeast Turkey killed at least three civilians and wounded dozens.
Security sources have blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the coordinated attacks on police targets.
Earlier in the day, three soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when militants opened fire with rockets and long-range weapons from across the border in northern Iraq. Security sources also blamed that attack, in Sirnak province, on the PKK.
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast has seen its worst violence in two decades since the PKK abandoned a 2-and-a-half year ceasefire last year.
The three civilians were killed when roadside explosives were detonated by remote control in the town of Kiziltepe in Mardin province, near the Syrian border, in an attack targeting a bus carrying police officers, the sources said.
Thirty other 30 civilians and 10 police officers were wounded.
In the region's largest city, Diyarbakir, a car bomb wounded many police officers, a senior Turkish official said. A security source said initial indications were that seven people had been wounded.
The PKK, designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 and more than 40,000 people, mainly Kurds, have died in the violence.
In July, a suspected PKK bomb attack on a police station in the Mardin province left three dead including one officer.
The south east of the country is largely populated with Kurdish people.
The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers' Party, have continually aimed their attacks at the police who are closely aligned with President Erdogan’s government.
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Last month, Human Rights Watch reported that the government is blocking all access for investigations into alleged attacks on civilians in southeast Turkey.
The organisation called for the UN to be allowed in to investigate.
A statement read: “The government should promptly grant the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights permission to enter the area and investigate according to its standards.”
More to follow.
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