ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 26 (UPI) — A military convoy in Turkey was targeted by a car bomb on Sunday while it responded to an emergency, killing two security officers and injuring four others.
The attack occurred in the town of Lice in Turkey’s south-eastern Diyarbakir province. The attack follows a Turkish bombing of Kurdish separatist camps in northern Iraq on Saturday.
No group has taken responsibility for the latest attack.
Turkey’s military action was a retaliation to an apparent attack by militants of the Kurdish Workers Party, also known as the PKK, on Wednesday that killed two Turkish police.
“We will not stay silent in the face of those who kill our police officers in their sleep,” Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in response to the PKK attack.
The Diyarbakir province has a significant Kurdish population. The PKK has waged an insurgency to gain independence, a campaign that has killed more than 40,000 people since 1984. The group reportedly recently issued a statement terminating a 2013 cease-fire with Turkey due to recent events.
Turkey is also facing continued violence from the Islamic State, which on Thursday killed a soldier and wounded two others. On Monday, an IS-linked suicide bomb attack killed 32 volunteers, mostly university students, in the town of Suruc.
The PKK and Turkey have accused each other of collaborating with the Islamic State.
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