ANKARA, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Thursday for the car bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Wednesday, Turkish Haberler News reported.
PKK members stated on a Kurdish news website named ANF, that their friend named Diro Amed conducted the attack against police headquarters in the district of Midyat in Mardin.
Three police officers and three civilians were killed, and around 30 others were injured in the car bomb which targeted police headquarters in Midyat, Mardin.
Thousands of Midyat's residents protested against the PKK on Thursday following the attack which killed six people, Yeni safak reported.
The protesters held Turkish flags and banners denouncing the PKK as they chanted slogans against the PKK.
Over 470 Turkish security forces troops and thousands of PKK members have been killed in confrontations in Turkey and northern Iraq since last July.
More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in clashes with the PKK since 1984, when the group first started its anti-government attacks.
The PKK is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Turkey.
