It extended condolences to the Turkish government, people and the families of the victims and wished the injured a speedy recovery, reports QNA. Again, the authorities said that the attack was the doing of the PKK.
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Turkish security forces launched an operation to apprehend the PKK militants responsible for the attack.
Members of the public and police inspect the site of a auto bomb attack on a police station in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig on August 18, 2016. Three officers were killed and 217 people were wounded, 85 of them police officers, officials said.
They said the blast killed three soldiers and a member of the state-sponsored village guard militia and wounded another seven soldiers.
Three people were killed and 40 injured when a vehicle bomb exploded near a police station in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, near the Iranian border.
The PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the USA and European Union – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said US officials “are in close touch with Turkish authorities”, and the two countries will continue to work together to combat terrorist groups.
Several thousand companies and institutions suspected of having financed Gulen have been shut.
More than 40,000 people have been killed in violence since the PKK first took up arms in 1984.
The authorities say the attack was carried out by the Kurdistan Worker’s Party or PKK.
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A ceasefire between the PKK and the government collapsed past year, leading to a resumption of the three-decade long violence.
