Hospital sources initially told Reuters that nine people were killed and 64 wounded, but an official later said the toll was eight.
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Cizre is in Sirnak province, a province that has a largely Kurdish population and borders Syria and Iraq.
One police officer was killed and 25 people wounded in a auto bomb attack at a police headquarters in the town of Cizre in southeast Turkey on Friday, hospital sources said. It said the blast caused severe damage to the police station.
Turkish security forces have been hit by near daily attacks by the PKK since the two-and-a-half year truce collapsed, leaving hundreds of police officers and soldiers dead.
Militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have carried out a string of auto bomb attacks on police and military in recent months. The Health Ministry sent 12 ambulances and two helicopters to the site.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
As well as fighting the PKK, Turkey is battling so-called Islamic State, whose militants have carried out a series of bloody attacks over the past year.
At the same time, Turkey has been afflicted by deadly attacks blamed on Islamic State militants, including a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in southeast Turkey last week that killed 54 people and an attack on Istanbul’s main airport in June that killed 44 people.
Cizre, a majority Kurdish town, has borne the brunt of renewed violence between the outlawed PKK and government forces since the collapse of a ceasefire past year.
Turkish troops fired on YPG fighters in northern Syria on Thursday.
The Turkish government has accused the PKK, which the U.S., European Union and Turkey designate as an extremist organization, of carrying out a series of attacks against Turkish authorities in the country’s southeast. More than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, have died since the rebels took up arms in 1984.
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On Thursday Interior Minister Efkan Ala accused the group of attacking a convoy carrying the main opposition party leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
