Car bomb attack at Turkish police station kills 5

He spoke a day after terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants detonated a auto bomb at a police station in southeast Turkey and then attacked it with rocket launchers and firearms, killing six people, including civilians, officials said.

Turkish tanks and artillery attacked the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists, Turkey’s prime minister said Thursday – the country’s first significant strike against the Islamic extremists in months. This recent attacks may make the Turkish government reconsider its current allocation of military capacities and, consequently, shift its warfare focus towards Daesh.

Turkey will also carry out air strikes against the radical Sunni group if necessary and will maintain its “determined stance” until Daesh fighters leave its border areas, Davutoglu told a conference of Turkish ambassadors in Ankara.

“We will continue our fight against terrorism with the same resolve and will never take a step back”, he said, according to Anadolu Agency. Five people have been detained in connection with the bombing, authorities have said. The ministry has only advised its nationals to keep away from large groups in public places and tourist attractions in Istanbul.

That is the same Syrian Kurdish forces that-after Washington’s failure to bolster “moderate” Arab rebels-have also become America’s indispensable local partner in the campaign against Islamic State. Ala confirmed reports that the bomber had registered with a refugee agency, providing fingerprints that allowed officials to quickly identify him, but said the suicide bomber wasn’t on any Turkish or worldwide watch lists for IS militants. He had come to Turkey as an ordinary refugee. Some IS fighters of Russian origin are believed to have left the IS to settle in Turkey, families say.

A combination of economic decline in Russia and a worsening row between Moscow and Ankara, related to the Turkish downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border in November, has dramatically reduced the number of tourists coming from that country. Steinmeier and Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said there’s no indication Germans were targeted specifically.

The bomber, who blew himself up among groups of tourists on Tuesday near the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, the top sites in one of the world’s most visited cities, had registered with immigration authorities in the city a week ago.

Three Russian citizens were arrested in a raid on a suspected ISIS terror cell in Turkey after a deadly suicide bombing in Istanbul.

Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, and others are part of a U.S.-led coalition to fight ISIS in the region.