Turkey

Bloody bomb attack in Diyarbakir

A day before the scheduled visit of Prime Minister Davutoglu, in the Kurdish metropolis in the Southeast of Turkey to the attack on a police bus. Seven policemen were killed.

A remote-detonated bomb exploded as a police bus at the bus station in Diyarbakir over went, said a representative of the security forces. While 14 policemen and nine civilians had been injured.

Terrorism was again shown its “ugly face”, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the USA, where he participates in the Nuclear summit part. However, the Turkish security forces would put the Terror to an end soon, Erdogan said.

The bombing took place a day before Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu comes to a rare visit to Diyarbakir. Diyarbakir is the largest city in the Kurdish areas, and has long been a source of unrest.

Thousands of Deaths since the resurgence of the conflict

The police and the army for months in the Kurdish cities in the Southeast of Anatolia, with a large force against guerrilla fighters of the banned Kurdistan workers ‘ party (PKK). The Kurdish conflict in Turkey escalated in July after two years of relative calm again. In Diyarbakir and other Kurdish cities, there is fierce street fighting with numerous casualties on both sides. The Turkish air force regularly flies attacks on the camps of the PKK in the mountains in Northern Iraq.

In Diyarbakir, there are always street battles with numerous Victims on both sides

The government said this week since the escalation of the conflict in July of 355 members of the security forces and 5359 PKK supporters had been killed. A confirmation of the number of victims in the rebel-independent. In total, more than 40,000 people have been killed, since then, the PKK, in 1984, in the fight for the independence of the Kurdish areas with the weapons.

bor/wl (afp, reuters, dpa)