2 police killed in car bomb attack in southeast Turkey

Mar 04, 2016, 15:36
2 police killed in car bomb attack in southeast Turkey

- Turkey's state-run news agency says a vehicle bomb attack in southeastern Turkey has killed two police officers and wounded at least four other people.

It added that PKK terrorists attacked the Nusaybin Regional Traffic Station at around 05:45 a.m. (0345GMT) local time. Greater than 40,000 folks, mainly Kurds, have because been killed.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

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Turkey's security forces are battling Kurdish militants linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the town. A suicide vehicle bombing targeting military buses in Ankara killed 29 people last month.

2 police in the branch were killed, while 14 people including police and residents in the building were injured.

The PKK, considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, has been fighting against Turkey in 1984.

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The Turkish state began a crackdown on Kurdish groups in the southeast of the country last August, ending a two-year truce and violating the lives of close to 1.5 million people, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT).

In a related development Friday, Turkey's Justice Ministry submitted a formal request for parliament to lift the legal immunity of the two co-chairmen of the country's pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party, or HDP, and three other legislators, so that they could be prosecuted for alleged links to the rebels, Anadolu reported. The government said that attack was carried out by a member of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia with help from the PKK.

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