Kurdish Militants Fire Rockets on Police Checkpoint in Turkey
Militants fire rockets on a checkpoint in the city of Diyarbakir on Saturday, so far no casualties reported.
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Suspected Kurdish militants fired rockets at the airport in Turkey’s main southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Saturday, sending passengers and staff scrambling for shelter, Dogan news agency said, but there were no reports of casualties.
Four rockets were fired at a police checkpoint outside the VIP lounge, and passengers and staff were taken inside the terminal building for safety, the private news agency said. Broadcaster NTV said the rockets landed on wasteland nearby.
Diyarbakir is the main city in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast, where Kurdish militants have waged a three-decade insurgency. The attack comes days after Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria aimed at driving back Islamic State and at preventing territorial gains by Kurdish fighters.
This comes a day after Kurdish militants attacked a police checkpoint in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Friday with an explosives-laden truck, killing several police officers and wounding dozens more, according to reports from the state-run Anadolu news agency.
(With inputs from Reuters and AP)
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