{"id":58385,"date":"2016-08-26T08:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58385"},"modified":"2016-08-26T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:52:11","slug":"pkk-attack-martyrs-8-police-officers-in-se-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pkk-attack-martyrs-8-police-officers-in-se-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"PKK attack martyrs 8 police officers in SE Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Car-bomb attack hits checkpoint close to riot police HQ in province of Sirnak.<\/h1>\n<p>At least eight police officers were martyred Friday when PKK terrorists detonated a bomb-laden car near a security checkpoint in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak, hospital sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the attack also injured 45 people, including two in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Accoeding to Anadolu Agency, Security sources said earlier that the terror attack had targeted the checkpoint some 50 meters away from a riot police unit headquarters in Sirnak&#8217;s town of Cizre.<\/p>\n<p>The blast caused extensive damage to the police HQ building. Nearby houses and workplaces were also damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces are currently searching for the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The PKK &#8212; listed as a terrorist organization also by the U.S. and EU &#8212; resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, more than 600 security personnel have been martyred and more than 7,000 PKK terrorists have been killed.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car-bomb attack hits checkpoint close to riot police HQ in province of Sirnak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,173],"tags":[3219,9735,10720],"class_list":["post-58385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-turkey-headlines","tag-pkk","tag-pkk-terrorists","tag-sirnak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}