The raids came after bomb blasts in two cities in southeast Turkey killed nine civilians and wounded dozens on Wednesday evening, according to security sources who said Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were responsible. And a auto bomb blast in the city of Diyarbakir injured at least seven people, the source said.
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At the same time as the attack in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, a simultaneous blast hit a police bus in the town of Kiziltepe about 70 miles further south.
Another three people – two civilians and one policeman – lost their lives in a near-simultaneous vehicle bombing in Kiziltepe in Mardin province to the south, said Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan, quoted by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Turkish jets destroyed PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq, a military source said Thursday.
A senior Turkish official said several people, including children, were injured in both attacks.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization also by the US and the European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
Earlier Wednesday, five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack blamed on PKK militants in Uludere in the southeastern Sirnak province close to the Iraqi border.
More than 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK began activities in 1984. This news story is related to Latest/141552-Two-PKK-bomb-attacks-kill-seven-in-Turkey/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
However, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said it was a bomb attack targeting a police vehicle near the Syrian border in a village called Kiziltepe. Human rights groups say hundreds of civilians have also been killed.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK party have previously called for members of the HDP to be prosecuted, accusing them of being the PKK’s political wing.
