A car bomb detonated by a police minibus injured nine officers and a civilian on a highway in southeastern Turkey this Friday morning. Seven of the cases involved superficial wounds. The vehicle was parked in front of a market, ten kilometers from Diyarbakir, and five people have been arrested for their possible connection to the events.
The main suspect is the individual who parked the wrecked car and then fled with the help of a taxi driver. Both have already been arrested in the Lice district, the cradle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and also of some of the heroin kingpins in Europe.
Although the attack has not yet been claimed, it can be presumed that the PKK was responsible, at a time when militias affiliated with this organization in northern Syria are being harassed with renewed intensity with drones and a possible fourth ground incursion by the army is hanging over them. Turkish. Diyarbakir (Amed in Kurdish) is the unofficial capital of Kurdish southeastern Turkey.
The PKK, classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, would be behind the assault on a police station in Mersin last September, which caused one death and two injuries. The two militants also died in it, who blew up their explosive belt when they found themselves cornered.
Ankara also blames the Syrian branch of the organization for the bombing in Istanbul's most touristy avenue, which last month left six dead and dozens injured of many different nationalities.
