Turkey frequently imposes such bans following deadly bomb attacks.
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Footage on the CNN Turk channel showed offices inside the police station in ruins and filled with smoke after the bomb exploded just outside the complex at 9:20am (0620 GMT), when officers had already begun arriving for work. “We will thwart the PKK like we thwarted FETO”, he said, referring to Fethullah Gulen who Ankara blames for the attempted coup last month.
Separately, a court ordered that 187 suspects’ assets be seized, according to Anadolu.
The Ministry said Georgian diplomatic representations in Turkey were working 24 hours a day to provide help to Georgian citizens in Turkey. They flew to the northeastern Greek city of Alexandroupolis the following morning and have applied for asylum in Greece, saying they fear they would not face a fair trial if returned to Turkey and that their lives would be endangered.
Turkish officials say the injury toll in two auto bombings targeting police stations in eastern Turkey has reached at least 219.
The first attack targeted a police station in the eastern city of Van, killing one police officer and two civilians.
Another explosion happened near a police station in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, killing three people and injuring more than 70.
In Van province, further east, two police officers and one civilian were killed and 73 people were wounded late on Wednesday when a vehicle bomb exploded near a police station, the local governor’s office said in a statement.
At least four soldiers were killed and seven wounded in that attack, the AP says.
Two vehicle bombings targeted police stations in Turkey, killing a number of people and wounding hundreds, officials said. Dozens of other people, including some 20 police officers, were wounded.
Other outlets suggested the blast was carried out by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, considered by Ankara a terrorist organization.
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The mainly Kurdish southeast has been scorched by violence since a 2-1/2-year ceasefire between the state and the PKK collapsed in July last year.
