Guests were celebrating at a Kurdish wedding when a huge bomb went off in Eastern Turkey.
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On July 15, a military coup attempt took place in Turkey, which was suppressed the following day.
Former prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu suggested on Twitter that Gülen’s movement was working with the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the United States and the European Union.
Three police officers were killed and 170 people wounded by a auto bomb at a police station in Turkey’s eastern city of Elazig yesterday, the local governor’s office said, hours after a similar attack killed three people elsewhere in the region.
The force of the blast left a big crater, uprooted trees and blew out nearby cars. Some 35,000 people have been detained for questioning and more than 17,000 of them have been formally arrested to face trial, including soldiers, police, judges and journalists.
In Van province, further east, two police officers and one civilian were killed and 73 people were wounded late on Wednesday when a auto bomb exploded near a police station, the local governor’s office said in a statement.
The footage shows the bride and groom dancing and enjoying their party when all of the sudden windows started shattering and people were screaming and running around everywhere.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey will defend its interests in northern Syria despite of internal problems, NTV reported.
In Turkey, the wave of attacks come as government is focused on a clampdown on suspected followers of a movement led by US -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government accuses of orchestrating a failed military coup last month that killed at least 270 people.
He told reporters there that both the PKK and the Gulen movement were directed by the same “intelligence” intent on causing Turkey harm, without elaborating.
Monday was the 32nd anniversary of what is considered to be the launch of the PKK’s armed rebellion against the Turkish state.
The abortive putsch has resulted in a purge of the army, including the dismissal of nearly half of Turkey’s generals and admirals. Elazig won’t collapse with this attack. It has often been said that one of the reasons for the acrimonious split between Erdogan and Gulen is the Turkish leader’s now failed peace push with the Kurds. They are accused of alleged “membership in a terror organization” and “providing financial support to a terror organization”.
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The violence has escalated since the peace process failed to secure an agree between the PKK and Turkey’s security forces previous year.
