ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced Friday’s deadly Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attack in the south eastern province of Sirnak which left 11 police officers martyred.
“Turkey will never allow these terrorists to achieve their dirty aims,” Erdogan said in a statement.
At least 11 police officers were martyred when PKK terrorists detonated a bomb-laden truck near a checkpoint, the regional governor’s office said. The office also said the blast injured 75 officers and three civilians.
Erdogan said these attacks – at a time when Turkey was fighting against terror threats inside and outside of its borders – would only increase the country’s determination. The president also offered his condolences to the families of the martyred officers.
“There is no question that our fight with terror will succeed,” he said.
The PKK – also listed as a terrorist organisation by the US and the EU – resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015 and has slaughtered more than 600 security personnel yet, while more than 7,000 PKK terrorists have also been killed.
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