The attack came a day after Mr Erdogan removed two dozen mayors from Kurdish-run municipalities from office in four towns in the wider Van province over alleged links to the PKK – which is treated as a terrorist organsation in Turkey.
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The report said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group stands behind the blast.
Several ambulances rushed to the scene and television images showed water cannon being used to douse a fire.
“He is in good health”, Mehmet Ocalan told supporters in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, a day after meeting his brother on the Imrali prison island near Istanbul.
Naci Agbal said the government “under the principles of a state of law” would deal with those who supported or financed terrorists.
Speaking after attending Eid al-Adha prayers, President Tayyip Erdogan said the initial 48-hour ceasefire could be extended by a week and then again for a further period if it held, and the aim was to establish “first class peace”.
He said the Feto group was behind the July 15 attempted coup, and the PKK/Democratic Union Party in Syria would be stopped like the PKK in Turkey.
They are calling President Tayyip Erdogan’s administration’s widespread move a violation of voters and global law, and its own coup against the Turkish Parliament.
“Like the Gulen movement, the PKK can not possibly withstand the power of the people and the strength of the state”, Erdogan said in a video statement.
Erdogan accused the ousted mayors of “sending state funds to the mountain”, referring to the areas where the PKK is holed up.
A number of Kurdish and leftist activists started a hunger strike last Monday calling on the government to allow access to Ocalan.
Turkey’s army and worldwide coalition forces on Wednesday started an operation to drive Islamic State jihadists out of a key Syrian border town, a statement from the Turkish prime minister’s office said.
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The Interior Ministry said the decision to remove the mayors was in line with a governmental decree enacted in the wake of a failed military coup.
