- A car bomb exploded as a minibus carrying Turkish police officers.
- Two suspects are in custody.
- The governor’s office in Diyarbakir claimed no one was badly harmed.
A car bomb exploded as a minibus carrying Turkish police officers passed on a motorway in Diyarbakir, officials reported.
At 5:10 am, a police vehicle in Diyarbakir exploded in a parked vehicle, the Turkish interior minister said.
Two suspects are in custody, he said.
The governor’s office in Diyarbakir claimed no one was badly harmed, but nine people on the armored minibus were hospitalized.
The bomb occurred 10 kilometers south of Diyarbakir, Turkey‘s largest city.
Nobody claimed responsibility immediately. Kurdish, communist, and ISIS fighters have all bombed Turkey.
Last month, a bomb in Istanbul killed six and injured scores. Dozens were seized, including a Syrian woman.
Turkey implicated PKK fighters, but no group claimed responsibility.
PKK and People’s Protection Units (YPG) denied involvement.
In 1984, the PKK launched an armed insurrection in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast. The battle killed almost 40,000.
Turkey, the EU, and the US consider it a terrorist organization.
Turkey has threatened to begin a ground campaign in northern Syria against the YPG despite US and Russian resistance.
It bombs YPG and YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces positions in northern Syria and the PKK in northern Iraq.
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