Two Police Killed in Turkey Car Bomb and Rocket Attack

Special forces officers conduct a search operation following an attack at the entrance to a police station, in the Istandbul suburb of Bayrampasa, Turkey March 3. On Friday, Kurdish militants launched a car bomb and rocket attack on a police station in Nusaybin, killing two people.
 
A car bomb and rocket attack by Kurdish militants killed two police officers and wounded 35 people in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Friday, security sources told Reuters.
The attack was carried out around 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the
town of Nusaybin, near the Syrian border, they said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
A ceasefire between the PKK and the state collapsed last July and attacks on Turkey's security forces have since increased amid a surge in violence in the predominantly Kurdish southeast that has killed hundreds of people.
Violence has also increased elsewhere in Turkey. A suicide car bombing targeting military buses in Ankara killed 29 people last month. The government said that attack was carried out by a member of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia with help from the PKK.
The PKK, considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union, launched a separatist armed rebellion against Turkey in 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, have since been killed.


Source:Newsweek