Three bomb attacks this week in Turkey have led to 11 fatalities and 300 people getting injured, local media report.
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About 11 individuals were killed and more than 120 hurt after a string of vehicle bombs targeting police stations exploded in Turkey.
Government officials said all three attacks were carried out by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known in Turkey as the PKK, a group that has previously targeted security forces.
In Van province, further east, two police officers and one civilian were killed and 73 people were wounded late on Wednesday when a auto bomb exploded near a police station, the local governor’s office said in a statement.
The PKK statement claimed that the Elazig bombing alone left 105 police officers dead and 155 wounded.
“You don’t have to be fortune teller to see that the FETO is behind the latest PKK attacks in terms of sharing information and intelligence”, Erdogan said. Thousands of militants and hundreds of soldiers and police officers have been killed, according to official figures.
“Our fight against terror will never cease”, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who subsequently barred news coverage of the attacks in Turkey.
The ongoing clashes between the Turkish Army and PKK militants resulted in the death of more than 600 Turkish security personnel, while the Turkish army killed more than 5,000 members of the PKK in Turkey and northern Iraq.
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The southeast has been scorched by violence since a 2 1/2-year ceasefire with the PKK collapsed in July last year.
