By Xinhua,
Ankara : One police officer was killed and 14others were injured after a police shuttle bus came under attack by the militants of the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Wednesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
The PKK terrorists sprayed bullets on the shuttle bus as it was passing by Azizye neighborhood in Diyarbakir, according to the report.
The police shuttle bus was carrying personnel working at the Ali Gaffar Okkan Police Career Academy.
Erdogan on Tuesday said the country would launch cross-border military operations against PKK’s bases in northern Iraq if necessary.
The anger of the Turkish people is mounting after last Friday’ s deadliest attack that killed 17 Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province. The Erdogan government and the powerful military have pledged to intensify a campaign to crush the outlawed PKK.
The PKK took up arms in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Turkey has conducted frequent air raids on suspected positions of the PKK in northern Iraq. In February, it also launched an eight-day cross-border ground incursion against PKK rebels.