Tag: Diyarbakir
PKK bombing kills 7 near Turkey’s Diyarbakir
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) – by Ilyas AKENGIN Five Turkish police officers and two civilians were killed on Monday in a car bombing outside the southeastern city of Diyarbakir blamed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels, the government said. The blast hit a police traffic control building on a highway leading southeast from Diyarbakir to the city of Batman, killing the seven, a Turkish official said, confirming media reports and asking not to be named. The local […]
Twin PKK bomb attacks kill eight in southeast Turkey: official
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) – by Mahmut BOZARSLAN At least eight people, mostly civilians, were killed on Wednesday in two separate bomb attacks targeting police blamed on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in Turkey’s southeast, officials said. Five people, all civilians, were killed in a car bomb attack in the centre of the city of Diyarbakir, the regional governor’s office said in a statement. Twelve people were wounded including five police, it added. Another three people […]
