Speaking in Istanbul, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the victims of the attack in the town of Midyat, in Mardin province, were a police officer and two civilians.
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Yıldırım also provided detailed information on a auto bomb attack targeting the police headquarters in the Midyat district of the southeastern province of Mardin on the morning of June 8 that killed five people and wounded around 30.
“There was a loud bang, we thought it was lightning but right at that second the windows of the shop came down”, said a local shopkeeper, Cevher.
Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has blamed the PKK – listed as a extremist organization by Turkey, the United States and European Union – for the attack.
Turkey’s prime minister ruled out talks with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Wednesday after a spate of attacks blamed on the militants killed at least 17 people this week.
A ceasefire with the PKK collapsed nearly a year ago, setting off the worst violence the country has seen in two decades.
Many ambulances were seen rushing to the scene, the sources said.
The scenes of destruction mirrored those seen in Istanbul on Tuesday after the auto bomb rocked a central neighbourhood in the city, damaging hotels, houses and shops and shutting the local metro station.
The auto exploded when police opened fire to stop it, according to Turkish medias.
ANKARA, Turkey – A Kurdish rebel suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a police headquarters near Turkey’s border with Syria Wednesday, killing five other people and wounding dozens. Tuesday’s was the fourth major bomb attack in Istanbul this year. It said four people had been detained.
Violence flared previous year between Kurdish rebels and government forces, shattering a 2013 ceasefire reached after secret talks between PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and the Turkish state.
In April, a soldier was killed and six others were wounded in a vehicle bomb attack against their outpost in Mardin.
Yildirim yesterday attended the funeral at an Istanbul mosque of police officers killed Tuesday.
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The PKK has fought the Turkish military for over three decades, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, and demands greater autonomy for the country’s long-oppressed Kurdish minority.
