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Turkey: Car bomb by Kurdish rebels' at police station kills five Turkey: Car bomb by Kurdish rebels at police station kills six including a baby and two young children
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Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb at a police station in south-eastern Turkey then attacked it with rocket launchers and firearms, killing five people, including civilians. A baby and two young children were among six people killed when suspected Kurdish terrorists bombed a police compound in south-eastern Turkey.
A total of 39 other people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the truck bomb that tore through the police station and lodgings on Wednesday night in Cinar, a small town in Diyarbakir province, but the office of the local governor blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The attack on Wednesday night targeted the police station in the town of Cinar, in the mostly-Kurdish Diyarbakir province, and police lodgings at the compound, the Diyarbakir governor's office said. The force of the blast caused a house close to the police station to collapse. The group, which has been battling the Turkish state for more than 30 years, also opened fire on a nearby security complex, according to the governorate. Another police station was attacked with rocket launchers in Mardin province.
The attack killed two people at the police lodgings and three people died inside the collapsed house. The attacks represent an escalation in the conflict between the PKK and Turkish government, which has killed 40,000 people over three decades. The peace process collapsed in July after months of escalating tensions.
Another police station was also attacked with rocket launchers in Midyat, a town in the province of Mardin, the state-run Anadolu Agency said, in what appeared to be a simultaneous assault. No casualties were reported there. The latest attack came less than 48 hours after an Isis suicide bomber killed 11 tourists in Istanbul. The two bombings at opposite ends of Turkey highlight the dual security challenges facing a nation that is seen as a key Western partner in the battle against Isis and in efforts to control the flow of Syrian refugees.
The attack came a day after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in Istanbul's main tourist district, killing 10 Germans. Turkish officials say the bomber was affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) group. They will do little to quell fears that the conflict in neighbouring Syria is making Turkey increasingly unstable.
Clashes between Turkey's security forces and the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, reignited in July, shattering a fragile peace process. The success of Kurdish forces in Syria has boosted the confidence of their Turkish counterparts and alarmed the government in Ankara, which fears that Kurdish aspirations could threaten Turkey’s territorial integrity. 
Authorities have since imposed extended curfews in flashpoint neighbourhoods and towns in the mainly Kurdish-populated south-east region of the country as the security forces battle Kurdish militants linked to the PKK. The PKK, deemed a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the European Union, argues it is fighting for autonomy within Turkey, and for greater rights for the country’s 15 to 20 million Kurds.
The militants have mounted barricades, dug trenches and set up explosives to keep authorities away. The operations have resulted in more than a hundred civilian casualties, and displaced thousands, human rights groups say. Unlike previous outbreaks of violence in the predominately Kurdish south-eastern region, much of the recent fighting has taking place in urban centres after the PKK’s youth wing declared “autonomous zones”. Civilians have been caught in the middle. A Turkish human rights group recently claimed that 162 had lost their lives.
The conflict between the government forces and the PKK has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984. The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its western allies.
Press Association