Three people have been killed and several others wounded in a car bomb attack on a police station in the country's southeastern province of Mardin.
Hospital sources said more than 20 people, including police officers and civilians, were wounded in Wednesday's attack in the town of Midyat, a region where government forces are battling Kurdish separatists.
In televised comments, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said: "One police officer and two citizens have been confirmed dead so far."
According to images posted on Twitter, glass from blown-out windows littered the streets and plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the building.
Turkey has been hit by a series of similar attacks in recent months.
Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, have targeted police and military personnel since July, when a fragile peace process between the rebels and the government collapsed.
Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep, said there has been an increase in attacks since the Turkish army launched operations against PKK fighters in the area.
In May, three people were killed in a car bombing by Kurdish rebels against a gendarmerie station in Midyat and, in April, a soldier was killed and six others wounded in a car bomb attack against their outpost in Mardin.
Wednesday's attack comes a day after a car bomb hit a police vehicle in Istanbul, killing 11 people during the morning rush hour.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) has also been blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Turkey, which is part of the US-led coalition bombing its positions.
Several injured after car bomb targets Turkish police station
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Turkish policemen stand near a hotel building covered with a tarpaulin and Turkish national flags a day after a bomb explosion in Vezneciler district of Istanbul on June 8, 2016.
YASIN AKGUL/AFP/Getty ImagesANKARA, Turkey – A car bombing at a police headquarters near the border with Syria injured several people Wednesday, Turkish media reported. The private Dogan News Agency said two police officers were killed.
The explosion occurred on a main street, lined with cafeterias, shops and banks, in the town of Midyat, in southern Mardin province.
Television images from the scene showed thick smoke rising from the site of the attack, which seemed to have destroyed the facade of a building.
Dogan said the attack was suicide car bombing carried out with a van laden with a half-ton of explosives. The van exploded after slamming into protective concrete blocks placed around the headquarters, the agency reported.
The attack came a day after a car bomb hit a police vehicle in Istanbul, killing 11 people during the morning rush hour and took place as funerals for the victims were underway. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Turkey has been hit by a series of attack in the past year. Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have targeted police and military personnel since July, when a fragile peace process between the rebels and the government collapsed. The Islamic State group has also been blamed for a series of deadly bombings in Turkey, which is part of the U.S.-led coalition against IS.
Mardin, where government forces are battling Kurkish militants, has endured similar attacks in the past months.
In May, three people were killed in a car bombing by Kurdish rebels against a gendarmerie station in Midyat.
In April, a soldier was killed and six others were wounded in a car bomb attack against their outpost in Mardin.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's office blamed Kurdish militants for a car bombing that killed 11 people in central Istanbul, while a second bomb on Wednesday killed five people in the largely Kurdish southeast.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, meanwhile, said that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), blamed for Tuesday's attack in Istanbul, had recently sought to revive peace talks and offered to lay down their arms.
A ceasefire with the PKK collapsed almost a year ago, setting off the worst violence the country has seen in two decades. Yildirim, in comments broadcast live by TRT television, said Turkey would not negotiate to end the violence.
The car bomb on Tuesday ripped through a police bus during the morning rush hour in Istanbul, killing six police officers and five civilians near the main tourist district, a major university and the mayor's office.
On Wednesday the bomb targeted a police station in the southeastern town of Midyat, killing three civilians and two police officers and wounding more than 30 others. The province borders Syria in a region where Kurdish militants have waged a three-decade insurgency.
"All indicators and signs regarding the attack in Istanbul yesterday point to the separatist terror organization," Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told a news conference, referring to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
"The Midyat attack is very fresh and we can only make an assessment once we have all the information," Kalin said.
There has been no claim of responsibility from Kurdish militants. They have carried out similar attacks in Turkey's major cities in the recent past as violence has spiraled since the ceasefire with the PKK collapsed almost a year ago.
The unrest has been fueled by the war in Syria. Turkey says the PKK - considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, the European Union and the United States - has deep ties to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia fighting just across the border.
The groups do not deny links. The PKK founded the YPG as a Syrian organization a decade ago and both are inspired by Abdullah Ocalan, who led the PKK from its inception and lived in Syria shortly before his capture in 1999. He remains in jail.
Clashes broke out between security forces and PKK militants in Midyat during the attack when the explosion destroyed the facade of a five-storey block, security sources said.
"Whether they carry out suicide bombings in our cities, whatever methods they use, they can never wear down this nation and can never pull us back from this honorable fight," Yildirim said after visiting wounded in Istanbul.
Referring to the PKK's offer to revive peace talks, Yildirim said: "These days, the terrorist organization has conveyed messages, directly and indirectly, saying 'We can negotiate, we will put down our weapons, let's talk' ... There is nothing to talk about," he said.
The collapse last year of peace negotiations with the autonomy-seeking PKK reignited the three-decade war in July 2015. Thousands of militants and hundreds of security forces have died in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the government says.
Opposition parties and rights groups estimate that between 500 and 1,000 civilians have also been killed.
Security concerns have weighed on tourism and investor confidence in Turkey.
The wars in neighboring Syria and Iraq have fostered a home-grown Islamic State network blamed for a series of suicide bombings, while the Kurdish militants have increasingly struck beyond their usual targets in the southeast.
(Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Daren Butler, Ayla Jean Yackley and Yesim Dikmen in Istanbul; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
