{"id":27629,"date":"2016-08-11T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/civilians-police-officers-killed-in-turkey-blasts\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:41:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:41:42","slug":"civilians-police-officers-killed-in-turkey-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/civilians-police-officers-killed-in-turkey-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilians, police officers killed in Turkey blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Attacks kill eight people in southeastern Turkey as 17 are arrested in Istanbul “anti-terror” raids.}<\/p>\n

A bomb-laden car was used in the attack in Diyarbakir, according to a statement by the provincial governor [Al Jazeera].<\/p>\n

Eight people, including police officers, were killed and several others wounded in two separate bomb attacks in southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n

At least three people, including one police officer, were killed and 30 others, including five police officers, wounded when a handmade explosive was detonated by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a police vehicle was passing in the Kiziltepe district of the southeastern Mardin province on Wednesday, according to Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan.<\/p>\n

The PKK, also on Wednesday, carried out a separate attack in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province targeting another police vehicle, the government said.<\/p>\n

In Diyarbakir, five civilians were killed and 12 people, including five police officers, were wounded, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n

A bomb-packed car was used in the attack, according to a statement by the provincial governor.<\/p>\n

Earlier, officials said four soldiers had been killed and nine wounded when PKK fighters opened fire with rockets and long-range weapons from across the Iraqi border into Turkey’s Sirnak province.<\/p>\n

{{HDP offices raided}}<\/p>\n

In a separate development, Turkish police said they arrested 17 people after “anti-terror raids” in at least 10 districts of Istanbul early on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The suspects, accused of having links to the PKK or other pro-Kurdish groups, were charged with “being a member of a terrorist organisation, recruiting members for a terrorist organisation and organising illegal demonstrations,” the state-funded Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n

The headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in Istanbul’s central Beyoglu district, was also raided as part of the police operation, according to Turkish media reports.<\/p>\n

Several “organisational documents”, one walkie-talkie and a jammer device were confiscated during the raid, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.<\/p>\n

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling AK party have previously called for members of the HDP to be prosecuted, accusing them of being the PKK’s political wing.<\/p>\n

Turkey, the United States and the European Union call the PKK, an armed group that has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy since 1984, a “terrorist organisation”.<\/p>\n

The HDP, parliament’s third-biggest party, denies direct links with the PKK and advocates for a negotiated end to the Kurdish conflict, which has claimed hundreds of lives since a peace process, once led by Erdogan and the AK party, collapsed in 2015.<\/p>\n

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