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Police Officer, Two Children Wounded in Clashes in Southeastern Turkey

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A Turkish police officer and two children were injured in clashes that started after protests against the attacks of the Turkish army on the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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ANKARA (Sputnik) – A Turkish police officer and two children have been injured in clashes between police and a group of street rioters in Turkey’s southeastern province of Sirnak, HaberTurk television channel reported Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, a group of people began to protest against the attacks of the Turkish army on the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

The protesters began erecting barricades in a residential area of the town of Cizre in Sirnak Province. Police arrived at the site of the rally and proceeded to dismantle the barriers when someone threw a homemade explosive device at them, HaberTurk said.

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A 24-year-old police officer and two children aged eight and 10, who happened to be in the area, sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital. According to the news outlet, their condition is not life-threatening.

The incident came after Turkey launched a two-front military campaign on Friday against Islamic State (ISIL) in Syria and the PKK in northern Iraq. The campaign so far has involved airstrikes by F-16 fighter jets and shelling from Turkey. The military operation is a response to an allegedly IS-organized explosion in the city of Suruc on July 20, which killed 32 people, and the killings of two police officers, thought to have had links to IS, by the PKK.

The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, was established at the end of the 1970s to fight for self-determination of the Kurdish community, comprising some 25 percent of Turkey's population.

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