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Breaking News: Turkey Mersin, bomb attack against police shuttle bus 18 wounded

October 17, 2017 by administrator

A bomb exploded as a bus carrying police was passing by in the southern province of Mersin on Oct. 17, wounding a dozen officers, officials said.

The blast occurred on a main road in the provice, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said 17 police officers and one civilian were wounded in the attack.

He added that it was a “terror attack” according to initial findings.

Three prosecutors were assigned to investigate, a local prosecutor had stated.

Several police officers, ambulances and firefighters were sent to the scene, the agency reported earlier.

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has targeted police in similar attacks in the past.

Turkey: Car bomb attack on military outpost kills 3, wounds nearly 40 in SE Turkey

July 9, 2016 by administrator

People search for injured as smokes rise from the Midyat Police station after an explosion on June 8, 2016 in Midyat, southeast Turkey. © AFP

At least three people have lost their lives and more than three dozen sustained injuries in a bomb attack on a military outpost followed by shooting in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin.

The car bombing targeted the Cevizlik village outpost in Mardin province, which borders Syria, on Saturday around 12:40 p.m. (0940 GMT), killing two soldiers and a civilian, security sources said.

They added that those wounded in the attack included 23 soldiers, three of whom seriously hurt, 14 civilians as well as one member of the village guard.

The attack came a day after Turkish troops killed 19 PKK militants during clashes elsewhere in the mainly Kurdish region.

Turkish troops killed 17 PKK militants in the Semdinli district of Hakkari province on Friday.

Separately, further north in the Baskale district of Van province, security forces, who were destroying explosives planted beside a road, were engaged in a firefight and killed two PKK militants, according to a military statement.

Ankara has been conducting a large-scale campaign against the PKK in its southern border region in the past few months. The Turkish military has also been pounding the group’s positions in northern Iraq.

The operations began in the wake of a deadly July 2015 bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. More than 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

After the bombing, the PKK militants, who accuse the government in Ankara of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of reprisal attacks against Turkish police and security forces, prompting the Turkish military operations.

A shaky ceasefire between Ankara and the PKK that had stood since 2013 was declared null and void by the militants following the Turkish strikes against the group.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey since 1984. The conflict has left more than 40,000 people dead.

Kurdish forces PKK: neutralized Two Turkish soldiers 46 wounded in bomb attack & military post collapsed

April 12, 2016 by administrator

Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded, including civilians, on late April 11 in an Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bomb attack in the Hani district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

PKK forces detonated a bomb-laden tanker in front of the Hani Gendarmerie Post. An armed clash later erupted between security forces and PKK forcess

Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded including the relatives of gendarmerie personnel in the lodgings.

The wounded were first taken to Hani State Hospital and later transferred to the Diyarbakır Military Hospital by helicopter and ambulance.

A significant portion of the military post collapsed due to the attack while other buildings nearby were also damaged as the search and rescue efforts in the buildings continued.

Meanwhile, the Hani Criminal Court of Peace ordered a broadcast ban until the completion of the investigation following the attack.

Turkey: Bomb attack injures 24 in SE Turkey, Ankara blames PKK

August 29, 2015 by administrator

A bomb blast has injured 24 people in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin amid the escalation of tensions between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

According to Turkey’s state-run Anadolou news agency, the bomb attack targeted a bus carrying police forces in Mardin late Friday, injuring 24 people, including 10 policemen.

The attack was carried out by the PKK militants, the agency said, adding that the wounded were taken to Kiziltepe and Mardin hospitals to receive medical treatment.

Earlier in the day, the PKK supporters launched a rally in the city of Istanbul to protest against Ankara’s growing crackdown on Kurdish militants.

The demonstrators reportedly blocked the streets by lighting fires, and engaged in clashes with the police. Turkish forces used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the angry protesters.

The demo came after clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants claimed the lives of seven people, including a seven-year-old boy, in the southeast of the country.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.

There has been renewed conflict between the PKK and Turkish security forces since July. Turkey has been launching airstrikes against purported Daesh targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq after a Daesh bomb attack left 32 people dead in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on July 20.

Reports say that over 60 Turkish security personnel have lost their lives since the recent flare-up of clashes between Ankara and Kurdish militants in June.

Police officer wounded in bomb attack on AKP HQ in Turkey’s Diyarbakir

August 16, 2015 by administrator

One police officer was wounded late on Aug 15 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) bomb attack targeting the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) provincial headquarters in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

PKK militants staged an attack on the AKP provincial headquarters in Diyarbakır with a cluster bomb at around 9 pm. One police officer on duty was wounded and immediately taken to hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, security forces found an unexploded second bomb during the subsequent investigation. Bomb disposal experts were called to the area and defused the bomb.
A broad-scale operation has been started to apprehend the militants responsible for the attack.

Aleppo Armenian buildings face fresh bomb attacks

April 8, 2014 by administrator

The Armenian-populated districts in Syria’s economic capital have come under fresh bomb attacks as the country continues facing armed tensions between Islamist militants and government forces.

A local news outlet says in Facebook post that 40 mortar mines and a missile exploded in the city, hitting also building roofs in the Armenian districts.

The blasts have left the population in panic. They are said to have also caused a huge material damage.