Burcu Arik
September 06, 2015•Update: September 06, 2015
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AA) - Two policemen were martyred and three others injured in a rocket attack carried out by PKK terrorists in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, security sources said.
According to the sources, PKK terrorists attacked an armored police vehicle with a rocket in Diyarbakir province’s Sur district.
The wounded policemen were taken to hospitals around the district.
Governorship of Diyarbakir declared a curfew in the district after the attack.
The attack in Diyarbakir is the latest since the PKK, which is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU, renewed an armed campaign against the Turkish state in the aftermath of the July 20 suicide bombing in Sanliurfa province’s Suruc district.
More than 75 members of the security forces have been martyred in the violence so far while land-and-air operations in Turkey and northern Iraq have killed more than 960 terrorists.
The fighting between PKK terrorists and security forces had seen a fragile lull for a two-and-a-half year period from early 2013 in what is publicly known as the "solution process" in an attempt to end the decades-long conflict.
