Mehmet Akif Hatunoğlu, one of four police officers who were killed on Thursday when explosives planted by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists were detonated as they passed by, left behind a letter stating he does not want President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or interim Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to attend his funeral.
The slain police officers — İbrahim Halil Aksoy, Mehmet Hüseyin Balta, Ahmet Akalın and Hatunoğlu — were traveling in a vehicle in the Dargeçit district of southeastern province of Mardin on Thursday morning, when the terrorist staged the bomb attack against the vehicle.
According to media reports, the attacked police vehicle was patrolling the district on Thursday morning to ensure the security of firefighters who were trying to extinguish a fire in an educational institution in the district that was started earlier by the PKK. Security forces have launched a large-scale operation in the district to capture those perpetrators who fled the scene following the bomb attack. Report by Zaman
Security forces later found a letter of testamentary on Hatunoğlu. In the letter, Hatunoğlu says if he is killed, he does not want Erdoğan, Davutoğlu, any ministers, deputies or governors to attend his funeral ceremony as the state officials turned a blind eye to PKK terrorist acts during the settlement process launched in 2012 to end Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish problem.
Expressing his love for his family, wife and daughter, the slain policeman also says he firstly entrusts his daughter to his wife and then his parents, but will never entrust his daughter to the state.

The bomb blast in the Dargeçit district of Mardin is the latest in a succession of frequent attacks against security forces by PKK terrorists since a two-year-long cease-fire ended in July, leaving in tatters the settlement process launched by the government with imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan to end the Kurdish problem.
Furthermore, two other police officers were injured in another terrorist attack staged by the PKK in Mardin province on Wednesday night. The terrorists detonated mines planted on a road in the Derik district of Mardin while a vehicle carrying a group of police officers was passing by. According to media reports, two police officers were slightly injured and are receiving treatment at Derik State Hospital.
Turkish warplanes also bombed PKK targets on Wednesday after one soldier was killed in the same region. State media said 20 militants were killed in those air strikes.
More than 70 members of the security forces have been killed since the PKK attacks began. The media says more than 900 PKK militants have been killed in that period in southeast Turkey and Iraq, where the terrorist PKK has bases.