This is the aftermath of a bombing that killed at least 11 police officers and injured dozens of people in Turkey.
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On Thursday Interior Minister Efkan Ala accused the group of attacking a convoy carrying the main opposition party leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
Turkey’s PKK conflict shows no sign of abating, says the BBC’s Mark Lowen, and the government has ruled out any negotiations until the group completely disarms. Television footage showed black smoke rising from the mangled truck and the three-story police station gutted from the powerful explosion. Authorities have blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, for those attacks.
The bomb attack caused huge damage to the headquarters of the special anti-riot police force in Cizre, with television pictures showing an vast plume of black smoke heading into the sky. It said a vehicle bomb was detonated at the police checkpoint.
Dozens of other people were injured in the blast, which happened near the headquarters of an anti-riot police force in the town of Cizre.
Turkey on Friday sent four more tanks over the border, said an AFP photographer at Karkamis on the Turkish side of the frontier.
Since hostilities with the PKK resumed last summer, more than 600 Turkish security personnel and thousands of PKK militants have been killed, according to the Anadolu Agency.
The PKK has kept up its assaults in Turkey in the weeks since the unsuccessful July 15 coup by rogue elements in the military aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The town of Cizre has been the center of tensions between the PKK and the Turkish government for months, and curfews are routine in the area.
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It is proscribed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
