Numerous police officers and civilians were injured on Wednesday in two separate PKK bomb attacks in southeastern Turkey, security sources said, according to Anadolu Agency.
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Earlier today, four soldiers were also martyred and nine others injured in an armed attack by terrorist PKK organization in Habur 2 area of Uludere district in southeastern Sirnak province.
The official said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, detonated an improvised device on a road in Mardin province, wounding several civilians.
The PKK has kept up attacks after the July 15 failed coup during which a rogue military faction tried to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from power.
“In Sur district of Diyarbakır, 4 civilians lost their lives and five police officers were slightly wounded”, Arslan said.
The blast killed three people and wounded at least 30 people – including five children.
Clashes between the PKK and Turkey’s security forces resumed a year ago after a tenuous cease-fire collapsed.
One of the explosions targeted a police bus outside Mardin State Hospital in the town of Kiziltepe, on the Turkish border with Syria.
“We are in close touch with Turkish authorities and reaffirm our commitment to work together with Turkey to confront the scourge of terrorism”, Price added.
The PKK, designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984 and over 40,000 people, mainly Kurds, have died in the violence.
The government has vowed there will be no let-up in the fight against the PKK even in the wake of the coup.
The government has responded with military operations against the group, killing more than 7,000 militants in Turkey and northern Iraq, the agency said.
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Turkey and its allies consider the PKK a terror organization.
