At least 73 other people – 53 civilians and 20 police officers – were wounded, officials said.
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The banking investigators were detained on suspicion of making “irregular” investigations into the account of a government-related foundation and those of business people, including targets close to Erdogan, Anadolu said.
Two of the attacks occurred at police stations, in Elazig and Van, and one was a roadside bomb attack on a military vehicle in the province of Bitlis.
Clashes between Turkish security forces and the PKK have increased in frequency over the previous year, after a ceasefire between Ankara and the Kurdish organization fell through and militant activity resumed.
The first attack, a vehicle bomb in the eastern Elazig province outside a police headquarters, claimed three police officers’ lives.
On a more serious note, President Erdogan claims that Gulen’s supporters, which his administration refers to as FETO, are responsible for the attacks.
Turkish officials and state-run media say two auto bombings targeting police stations in eastern Turkey have killed at least six people and wounded over 120.
The Turkish premier Binali Yildirim put the number of those injured at 217, after the governor’s office earlier said 146 people were wounded.
Up to 150 people have been wounded in the attack in the eastern city of Elazig.
Video footage obtained by the private Dogan news agency showed a large plume of smoke rising from the area of the blast, the cause of which was not clear. Cars were overturned and the windows of the four-story building and its wings were blown out.
Authorities have arrested or suspended tens of thousands of police, troops, officials, judges and bureaucrats it says are linked to Gulen’s movement. “The intelligence that directs them is the same”.
Addressing a group of Islamic civil society members on Thursday, Erdogan said some 3,000 other Kurdish militants also have been detained, insisting that there has been no slackening in Turkey’s fight against the rebel group as it deals with the aftermath of the failed coup.
“No terror organization will force this nation to cow in submission”, he said.
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First, a village guard was killed and a soldier was wounded in clashes between security forces and PKK militants in the village of Nazar, state news agency Anadolu reported.
