Protest Attacks in Bingöl and Yüksekova

While the province headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been attacked by rocket fire, a percussion bomb has gone off in front of the district headquarters in Karlıova, a district of Bingöl.

According to the NTV news channel, the rocket attack in Bingöl took place in the night of 4 July and the perpetrators are unknown.

The building has received slight damage from the attack, which was carried out from around 200 metres away.

Gendarmerie and police tank attacked

As attacks have been on the rise recently, there has also been one in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari, a Kurdish-majority province in the southeast of Turkey.

At around 9 pm on 4 July, the Kamışlı gendarmerie station 20 km outside of the district town was shot at by members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). When the soldiers returned fire, clashes ensued, and an air operation was ordered.

At the same time as the attack on the gendarmierie, a police tank was attacked in Yüksekova city centre. Nobody was hurt, but tight security measures have been put into place.

Shopkeepers protesting

According to the website of the Hakkari Yüksekova News, yuksekovahaber.com, shopkeepers in the neighbouring province of Şırnak and its district of Cizre have kept the shutters of their shops down in protest at the fact that the bodies of 10 PKK fighters, killed in a battle in the Pervari district of Siirt, have been unidentified and been kept in a hospital for days.

According to the DİHA news agency, the family of Halis Kuday, born in Silopi, Siirt, has gone to Siirt to pick up his body for burial. (EÖ/AG)