Articles About Terrorist Activities

Five policemen and three civilians died today in Güroymak district of the southeastern province Bitlis in a suspected roadside bomb explosion.

A bomb that was planted in a manhole went off while a police vehicle was passing, just outside Güroymak, security sources said.

Bitlis Gov. Nurettin Yılmaz told reporters in the eastern city that five police officers and three civilians were killed in the explosion, which was caused by a remote-controlled bomb. “Four other people were injured and are now receiving treatment at the Bitlis State Hospital,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

A makeshift bomb went off during a demonstration by supporters of the Kurdish separatist group PKK in southern Turkey Sunday, injuring four policemen and two civilians, media reported.

The device, hidden behind a trash can, exploded in the town of Sehan in southern Adana province as “our security forces intervened to stop a banned protest, injuring six people, including two civilians, Anatolia news agency quoted Adana governor Huseyin Avni Cos as saying.

“Two police officers are in serious condition,” the governor said.
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One police officer was killed and three others wounded when terrorists opened fire on a police station in Iskenderun town of southern province of Hatay on Thursday.

Hatay Governor Celalettin Lekesiz told reporters that they believed the attack was staged by terrorists. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that Turkey did not have a patience for a terrorist act on Iraqi soil, which would pose a threat against Turkey.

Holding a joint press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Ankara on Thursday, Davutoglu said that they mostly discussed terrorism issue, adding that a terrorist structure that nested in Iraq was a threat against territorial integrity of both Turkey and Iraq. Read the rest of this entry »

A village guard and a citizen died in a clash with terrorists in Baykan town of the southeastern province of Siirt on Wednesday.

Siirt Governor’s Office said that terrorists staged an armed attack on village guards and civilians in Baykan town, and one village guard and a citizen died in the clash. Read the rest of this entry »

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has released four of the teachers it kidnapped more than a week before, bringing the total number of teacher hostages down to four.

Gökhan Yıldız, Abdullah Karan, İhsan Sarıkaya and İsmail Yüce were released Oct. 5 near the village of Çevrecik in the eastern province of Elazığ’s Arıcak district. The four elementary school teachers, who were from the same district, went to the Arıcak Gendarmerie Garrison as soon as they were released. Read the rest of this entry »

The death toll from last month’s car bombing in Ankara rose to four Monday after a critically wounded man died in hospital.

Tuncay Acar succumbed to his injuries at Ankara’s Numune Hospital, where he had been in intensive care since the Sept. 20 blast. Surgeons had earlier removed part of the critically injured man’s lung.

The explosion on a busy street in central Ankara was claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, or TAK, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkish soldiers engaged suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the southeastern Hakkari province, killing alleged leading militant of PKK for Mount Kato, daily Milliyet reported on its website Saturday.

Security forces were conducting an operation Friday night to apprehend the assailants responsible for Thursday’s PKK attack that killed two soldiers and wounded three on Mount Kato. Read the rest of this entry »

Two soldiers were killed in an ambush by the alleged members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in the southeastern province of Şırnak late Thursday.

PKK militants remotely detonated a landmine during the passage of a military convoy on a road near Beytüşşebap district of the southeastern province of Şırnak at around 10:00 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »

Members of prominent education unions held protests, comdemning PKK’s kidnapping of schoolteachers. 17 PKK members, who returned to Turkey upon government’s call in 2009 were charged with 20 months

As security forces continued operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, two prominent education unions protested Thursday against the PKK’s recent kidnappings of teachers in several cities. Read the rest of this entry »