At least five policemen were injured in a roadside bomb attack on a police vehicle in the southeastern province of Şırnak on Aug. 31, the Hurriyet Daily News reports quoting official security sources as saying.
According to official sources, members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) detonated a bomb planted on the İdil-Cizre Highway as an armored police car passed by.
The injured policemen were taken to İdil State Hospital for treatment.
Operations against the PKK – listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States – came after it renewed attacks on Turkish security forces following the July 20 Suruç bombing that killed 33 socialist activists. The attack was blamed on jihadists, but the PKK accuses the Turkish government of responsibility for the blast.