Accoeding to Anadolu Agency, Security sources said earlier that the terror attack had targeted the checkpoint some 50 meters away from a riot police unit headquarters in Sirnak’s town of Cizre.
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On August 24, the Turkish military launched a cross-border operation named “Euphrates Shield” along with the USA -led coalition in Syria’s northern border city of Jarablus to clear the area from the Daesh terror organization.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack yet.
Though it is unclear who carried out the attack, the Turkish media blamed the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK.
The PKK – also listed as a terrorist organization by the USA and the European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
Security forces are now searching for the perpetrators.
“No terrorist organisation can hold Turkey captive”.
At the same time, Turkey has been afflicted by deadly attacks blamed on Islamic State militants, including a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in southeast Turkey last week that killed 54 people and an attack on Istanbul’s main airport in June that killed 44 people.
Television quoted the health ministry as saying 12 ambulances and two helicopters had been sent to the scene. The three-story police station was gutted from the powerful explosion. The city has been subject to curfews in the past year as Turkish authorities cracked down against the Kurdish group.
Operations of Turkish Armed Forces, which has been actively fighting Daesh, have significantly contributed to ongoing efforts of US -backed worldwide coalition against the terror group. Human rights groups say hundreds of civilians have also been killed.
The attacks on police come as the country is still reeling from a violent coup attempt on July 15 that killed at least 270 people.
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.
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Also on Thursday, Interior Minister Efkan Ala accused the PKK of attacking a convoy carrying the country’s main opposition party leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
