Two policemen and a civilian were killed in an attack on Wednesday night in Van, another city in the east.
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Another five police and three civilians were killed in a PKK vehicle bombing on a police traffic control building near the main southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Monday, the day seen as the 32nd anniversary of the launch of the armed rebellion.
Offices in the police station were left in ruins and filled with smoke after the bomb exploded in front of the complex, destroying part of the facade, CNN Turk footage showed.
PKK terrorists killed village guard Müslüm Yaldız and wounded a soldier in a following operation conducted in the area near Nazar village of Hizan district.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said in the wake of the blast that 217 people had been injured, with 145 of them still in the hospital. “The terror group has lost its chain of command”.
Media coverage of the Elazig attack has been banned in Turkey.
“We have raised the state of alarm to a higher level”, he said at the scene of the attack, where a crowd chanted “Damn the PKK!”
“In the past, fighters from the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, have targeted police and military facilities with their attacks”.
Provincial head of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Zahir Soganda, said: “The people of Van will not be discouraged by this incident”.
Three police officers were killed and 170 people wounded by a auto bomb at a police station in Turkey’s eastern city of Elazig on Thursday, the local governor’s office said, hours after a similar attack killed three people elsewhere in the region.
He says officials are suggesting Kurdish militants were behind the attack.
“Once again, the attacks in Van and Elazig show how PKK and FETO work together”.
More than 600 Turkish security force members have been killed by the PKK since the collapse of a ceasefire a year ago, according to a toll given by Anadolu on July 31. Thousands of militants and hundreds of soldiers and police officers have been killed, according to official figures.
Police and ambulances were seen rushing in, according to another broadcaster, the privately owned Dogan news agency.
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Over 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK first took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out an independent state for Turkey’s Kurdish minority, although now it focuses more on rights and demands for greater autonomy.
