Kurdish separatists attacked a police complex in southeastern Turkey overnight, killing at least six people and wounding dozens in the most sophisticated attack since violence flared up between insurgents and the Turkish state in July, officials said.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, struck a police station and lodgings for security officials in the Cinar district of Diyarbakir at around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, first with a car bomb and then with long-range weapons, the provincial governor’s office said on Thursday.
The Turkish government is attempting to crack down on the PKK in the country’s southeast, while at the same time trying to seal its border with Syria and cut of a key Islamic State supply route.