Three killed, one injured in armed conflict in southeast Turkey

Three people were killed while one police officer was seriously injured when police attempted to detain people in the southeastern province of ??rnak's Silopi district, prompting resistance from neighborhood residents that included reported members of the youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

An armed conflict erupted when alleged members of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the youth wing of the PKK, fought back with long-barreled weapons and rockets at police officers who had arrived at an YDG-H trench off of Nusaybin Avenue in ??rnak's Cizre district at around 12:30 a.m. on Aug 7.

The police responded with fire while an injured officer was taken to the Cizre Public Hospital for treatment. 

Over the past three weeks, Turkey has been struck by a series of violent attacks against its security forces, leaving scores of people dead and injured.

In the Uludere district of ??rnak, a civilian was injured after PKK militants fired shots with long-barreled weapons and rockets at the Uludere District Governor's Office, the Uludere District Police Department and the Uludere District Gendarmerie Command around 11 p.m. on Aug 6.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ??rnak deputy Ferhat Encü was trapped inside the governor's office building at the time due to a 10-minute-long exchange of fire between gendarmerie forces and PKK militants.

PKK attacks gendarmerie station with car bomb

In the eastern province of Van, members of the PKK fired shots with long-barreled weapons and rockets at a gendarmerie station in Van's Ba?kale district at around 9:15 p.m. on Aug 6, with no casualties reported. 

The militants detonated a car bomb, crashing it into a military vehicle...