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| Turkey police headquarters hit by car bomb attack – reports | Turkey police headquarters hit by car bomb attack – reports |
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| At least two people have reportedly been killed and as many as 39 wounded on Thursday in a car bomb attack on a police station in Turkey’s troubled south-east. | |
| A woman and a baby are thought to have died in the town of Cinar, Diyarbakir province, in the raid which has been blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). | A woman and a baby are thought to have died in the town of Cinar, Diyarbakir province, in the raid which has been blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). |
| The bomb caused heavy damage to the outer walls of the police station, and the attackers then followed up with rockets and long-range gunfire, the Dogan news agency reported. | The bomb caused heavy damage to the outer walls of the police station, and the attackers then followed up with rockets and long-range gunfire, the Dogan news agency reported. |
| Bu gece Diyarbakır Çınar! Bir polis eşi ve bir bebek hayatını kaybetti. 40 yaralı! pic.twitter.com/OdDbNjOIU5 | Bu gece Diyarbakır Çınar! Bir polis eşi ve bir bebek hayatını kaybetti. 40 yaralı! pic.twitter.com/OdDbNjOIU5 |
| Adjacent housing for police officers was also hit, wounding the wives of police and several children, Dogan said. | Adjacent housing for police officers was also hit, wounding the wives of police and several children, Dogan said. |
| Another police station was attacked with rocket launchers in Midyat town, in province of Mardin. No casualties were reported there. | |
| No group has yet claimed either of the attacks. | |
| The PKK launched a formal insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority. The conflict has left tens of thousands dead. | The PKK launched a formal insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence although it now presses more for greater autonomy and rights for the country’s largest ethnic minority. The conflict has left tens of thousands dead. |
| A new upsurge of violence between the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce. | A new upsurge of violence between the security forces and the PKK erupted in July in the wake of attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, shattering a fragile two-and-a-half-year truce. |
| Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkey’s urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks kept up curfews in three locations in the south-east to back up military operations that activists say have killed dozens of civilians. | Vowing to flush out the PKK from Turkey’s urban centres, the authorities have in recent weeks kept up curfews in three locations in the south-east to back up military operations that activists say have killed dozens of civilians. |
| Ten German tourists were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the government blamed on Islamic State, an arch foe of the PKK. | Ten German tourists were killed on Tuesday in a suicide bombing in central Istanbul which the government blamed on Islamic State, an arch foe of the PKK. |
| Agence France-Presse contributed to this report | Agence France-Presse contributed to this report |