A car bomb and rocket attack killed two police officers and wounded 35 people in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin Friday, security sources told Reuters.
The officials said the attack was carried out around 6 a.m. local time in the town of Nusaybin, near the Syrian border. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been blamed for the attack. However, no group has yet claimed 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 civilians.
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The news comes a day after an attack in Istanbul on a police station by two female militants who are believed to be members of a radical leftist group in the country.
Also, a suicide car bombing targeting military buses in Ankara killed 29 people last month and was carried out by another Kurdish group known as the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons.
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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.
The Turkish state began a crackdown on Kurdish groups in the southeast of the country last August, ending a two-year truce and violating the lives of close to 1.5 million people, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT).
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The news of Wednesday's attack comes after a group connected to the PKK in Syria known as the Kurdish People’s Protection Units Party (YPG) told RT reporter Lizzie Phelan that the al-Qaida-affiliate in Syria, Nusra Front, have been receiving regular supplies from the Turkish side in a bid by Ankara to prevent the Syrian Kurds from acquiring territory there.
Yet according to both Russia and the United States, the Syrian Kurds are the main force fighting against the Islamic State group and have been advancing against the extremist group in the north of the country.
