Hours later, another auto bombing hit police headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig early Thursday, killing at least three police office officers and wounding 146 other people, officials said.
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A Turkish official says a auto bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkey has killed a police officer and two civilians.
At least 14 people were killed and more than 220 were injured in the string of bombings in Turkey’s Elazig city, media reports said.
Eight people – five police and three civilians – were killed on Monday in a PKK auto bomb attack on a police traffic control building on a highway leading southeast from Diyarbakir.
Five police officers and three civilians, including a child, were killed on Monday in a powerful vehicle bomb explosion outside a police station near Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir.
About 23,000 people are being held amid the crackdown, and more than 81,000 people have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs, including 1,700 soldiers and almost 9,000 police.
Since then, over 600 security personnel, including troops, police officers and village guards have been martyred and more than 7,000 PKK terrorists killed or neutralized in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq.
Yildirim claims that Gulenism has “lost its assertiveness”, which has led the movement to take the PKK as allies, as it appears that the intelligence which elaborates the group’s actions is the same or has an intrinsic relationship.
The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
Kirby said the attacks are a reminder of the threat from terrorism Turks continue to face.
Rights groups say about 400 civilians have also been killed. An attack on the police station was condemned by the worldwide community.
Turkey has seen a major uptick in violence since last July, when a ceasefire between the Turkish state and the PKK broke down.
The ban requested that media to keep from publishing anything that could incite “fear in the public, panic and disorder and which may serve the aims of terrorist organizations”.
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Iran has condemned recent deadly bomb attacks in Turkey, expressing sympathy with the Turkish government and nation.
