4 November 2016, 09:36 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The car bomb explosion near the Counter-terror and Riot Police Branch building in Diyarbakir killed eight people, the country's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday.
"The blast was targeting Kurdish activists, including myself and Figen Yuksekdag," the statement said.
Earlier in the day, over a dozen of members of HDP lawmakers including its co-chairs Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas, had been arrested in raids carried out across the country.
Tensions between Ankara and Turkish Kurds escalated in July 2015 when a ceasefire between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) collapsed over a series of terrorist attacks, allegedly committed by PKK members.
