The first attack took place late on Wednesday evening, when located in the east province of Van, near the Iranian border, front of the police car bomb exploded. The bombing killed three people – two civilians and an officer, and at least 70 people were injured.
A few hours later, on Thursday morning, there was a similar act of terror. Car bomb exploded in front of a police building in the town of Elazig province of the same name.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reported that killed at least five people. More than 215 were injured, including 80 police officers.
The third attack occurred on Thursday approx. Hours. 13 (hr. 12 in Poland) in the district of Hizan in Bitlis province in south-east Turkey, where three Turkish soldiers were killed and six were injured in the explosion of a roadside bomb.
“He passed the baton to the PKK”
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced that following the attacks the authorities raised the terrorist alert in the country.
The attacks are blamed militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The Associated Press reminds that last week the commander of the PKK, Cemil Bayik threatened intensification of attacks on targets police in Turkey.
Yildirim said on Thursday at a press conference in Elazig that the PKK and the movement of Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses to organize a failed coup in July, they are directed by the same “intelligence”, which he believes wants to harm Turkey.
– Gulen Movement has lost confidence and passed the baton to the PKK. They are led by the same intelligence. When the job ends one second it takes – Yildirim said.
He said that the fight against the PKK will continue until the organization will not be “eliminated”. – No terrorist organization will not force the Turkish nation into submission – he stressed.
Erdogan said in turn that Turkey is attacked simultaneously by different organizations, which remain together in close contact and “work with the same motives, even if you bear different names. ” About
znajmił that the foiled coup of July 15, Turkish security forces killed at least 182 Kurdish militants; He stressed that the coup did not weaken the determination of services in the fight against the PKK.
Source: Storyful / x-news
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After the collapse of the truce with the rebels of the PKK in July 2015 bombings and fighting in the south eastern Turkey were killed. 400 soldiers and police officers and several thousand Kurdish fighters. According to the opposition were killed or between 500 and 1,000 civilians.
PKK calls for greater autonomy for the Kurds in Turkey. Since 1984, Turkey-PKK conflict cost the lives of more than 40 thousand. people, mostly rebels. The European Union and the United States recognized the PKK as a terrorist organization.
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