Death of Two Turkish Police Officers and Injuries to Dozens Following Car Explosion

One day after an attack by two armed women on a police station, on Friday, March 4, a car explosion in a Turkish province bordering Syria resulted in the death of two police officers and injuries to 35 others. Reuters, citing Turkish security forces, attributes the explosion to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party. The news agency also reports that Kurdish militants fired a rocket at the site of the car explosion on Friday morning. These explosions occurred in the city of Nusaybin near the Syrian border. The Friday explosions come just one day after Turkish media reported an attack by two women on an anti-riot police center in Istanbul, which involved grenade throwing and gunfire. According to reports from French news agency AFP and other Turkish media, including the Dogan news agency, the attackers targeted the anti-riot police center in the Bayrampaşa neighborhood of Istanbul, throwing several grenades and opening fire. Hours after this armed attack, Reuters reported that a leftist armed group named the 'Revolutionary People's Liberation Party' claimed responsibility for the attack. Following the violation of a ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government last summer, Turkey has been on high alert due to deadly attacks that have occurred in the country for months. The last of these attacks occurred on February 18 in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, resulting in the deaths of 29 people, an incident that the Turkish government attributed to PKK rebels and Syrian Kurdish militants. Istanbul has also seen several attacks during this period, including one where the attacker detonated themselves in a tourist area of the city, killing ten people. Some of these explosions and attacks have been claimed by a group known as the 'Islamic State.' However, it is still unclear which group organized today's attack.