It has seen a significant amount of violence this year, following Ankara’s offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the country’s southeast.
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No one was hurt after PKK militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on an airport in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province, the governor’s office said in a statement.
Passengers and airport staff were taken inside the airport’s terminal building for their safety, Dogan news agency said. The shelling missed, with rockets landing on wasteland close around midnight (local time) on Saturday, 27 August, said broadcaster NTV.
Diyarbakir is the main city in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast, where Kurdish militants have waged a three-decade insurgency.
Turkey fears Kurdish militia fighters will fill the void as ISIS is pushed back.
Turkey wants to stop Kurdish forces taking control of a line of territory along its southern border, fearing it could be used to support Kurdish militant group PKK. The Turkish forces responded with gunfire and carried out an artillery and tank attack on PKK targets.
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The PKK, which is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region here since 1984.
