Roadside bombing in southeast Turkey kills five civilians
While no group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack, Ankara is pointing the finger at the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party.
Five civilians are dead following a car bombing in Turkey’s restive southeast, local officials said Wednesday. According to a statement from the governor’s office in the Kurdish-populated Diyarbakir province, roadside bombs hit a car carrying a group of forestry workers in the town of Gulec in the Kulp district.
Security forces are now looking for the perpetrators, which the governor’s office said were "members of the PKK terror organization," referring to the armed insurgent group inside Turkey known as the Kurdistan Workers Party.
On Twitter, Turkey's parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop accused the PKK of orchestrating the “treacherous attack,” writing, "The separatist terror organization PKK has shown its nefarious face once again. The traitors will get the response they deserve.”
Fahrettin Altun, the communications director for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, tweeted that the "fight against terrorism does not slow down, even today."
