The blast occurred at 09:15 am (06:15 GMT) on Thursday when PKK terrorists detonated a vehicle bomb near the police headquarters.
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An official says several people have been wounded in a vehicle bomb explosion in the southeastern city of Elazig.
At the moment it’s unclear how numerous victims were police and how many were civilians.
Two policemen and a civilian were killed in an attack on Wednesday night in Van, another city in the east.
Defence Minister Fikri Isik blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for the attack during an interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Turkish soldiers guard a check point in the troubled southeast of the country.
Footage showed a large plume of smoke rising from the area in the immediate aftermath of the blast and extensive damage to the facade of the police station.
“On Monday, a auto bomb detonated near a traffic police station outside the southeast city of Diyarbakir, killing eight”, he says.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Yildirim said there was no doubt they were carried out by the PKK, deemed a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. “The PKK resumed its long-running conflict against the Turkish military in July 2015, after more than two years of reconciliation talks broke down”.
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More than 40,000 people have been killed in violence since the PKK first took up arms in 1984.
