The strikes followed a PKK attack on Turkish soldiers in Uludere, Şırnak province, in which four soldiers were killed and nine wounded.
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In the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir, sources say five civilians were killed in a auto bomb attack apparently targeting police, the sources said.
At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in two bomb blasts in southern Turkey on Wednesday (Aug 10), a senior official said.
A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government. Five civilians were killed and 12 people, including five police officers, were injured during the bomb attack, according to a statement by the governor’s office. The private Dogan news agency said that attack targeted military vehicles and was carried out with improvised explosives as well as rockets fired from northern Iraq.
The headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in Istanbul’s central Beyoglu district, was also raided as part of the police operation, according to Turkish media reports.
Clashes between Turkey’s security forces and the PKK resumed previous year, ending a ceasefire.
A top PKK commander had warned at the weekend of fresh attacks, saying police “will not be able to live as comfortably as they did in the past in cities”.
Turkish jets destroyed PKK terrorist targets in northern Iraq, a military source said Thursday.
The PKK, designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.
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It said the detainees were accused of “terror group membership”, recruitment and staging illegal protests.
