Vehicle bomb targets police station in Turkey’s Mardin

A day later, a suicide vehicle bombing targeting a main police station in the town of Midyat, near the border with Syria, killed three police officers and three civilians.

A vehicle bomb ripped through a police station in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more.

Prime minister Yildirim spoke after visiting those injured in an attack in Istanbul that occurred just a day before, killing 11 people, including seven officers, and wounding 36 others during the morning rush hour.

“We will continue our crackdown with determination, both in cities and in rural areas”, he said during a visit to victims of the attack receiving treatment at the Haseki Research and Training Hospital in Istanbul.

The attacks have also come as Turkey is battling PKK militants, who have themselves killed hundreds of members of the security forces in the southeast.

In April, a soldier was killed and six others were wounded in a auto bomb attack against their outpost in Mardin.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the outlawed group had made a bid for dialogue after nearly a year of renewed violence that ended a two-and-a-half year truce, adding that the government had no interest in responding.

A new auto bomb attack rocked Turkey on Wednesday, just a day after a similar bombing took place in Istanbul.

Murat Karayilan, a senior PKK commander, threatened to spread urban warfare across Turkey, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said on June 1.

Clashes broke out between security forces and PKK militants in Midyat during the attack when the explosion destroyed the facade of a five-storey block, security sources said.

A bomb-laden auto exploded as it was trying to pass through the barriers of the police headquarters of the Midyat district of the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Wednesday.

 With Turkey also waging war against Islamic State in Syria as part of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the country has become vulnerable to attacks on several fronts.

“These (attacks) are being carried out against people whose duty it is to ensure the security of our people”, he said.

In April, a soldier was killed and six others were wounded in a auto bomb attack against their outpost in Mardin.

The group is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its allies.

 The PKK has fought the Turkish military for over three decades, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, and demands greater autonomy for the country’s long-oppressed Kurdish minority.