A huge car bomb killed at least eight people Friday in the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region, authorities said.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said up to 100 were also wounded in the Diyarbakir bombing, the Associated Press reported. Yildirim said two police officers, a technician and five civilians were among those killed.
The incident took place near a building used by riot police and came hours after authorities detained at least 12 pro-Kurdish legislators from the People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, for questioning in terror-related probes. The Diyarbakir governor’s office said the bomb may have been planted by rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, according to the AP.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
A series of deadly bomb attacks have hit Turkey in the past 18 months. Turkey says these have been carried out by Kurdish militants or the Islamic State. The PKK has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state and is considered a terror organization by Turkey and its allies.
Turkey's interior ministry said the detentions of the lawmakers were for not appearing in court to testify in ongoing terrorism-related investigations, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency. The government accuses the HDP of being the political arm of the PKK, a claim the party rejects.
Federica Mogherini, the European Union's top foreign affairs diplomat, said she was "extremely worried" by the arrests and called a meeting of EU ambassadors in Ankara.
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