The European Union expressed concerns over the terrorist attack on a police station in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir province that left nine people dead today.
“The EU is very disquieted by the ongoing violence in the southeast over the last 12 months, which cannot continue,” a written statement released by the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini’s office said.
The bloc expressed condolences to the families of the victims killed and wished a speedy recovery to the injured, adding that they considered the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which was behind the attack, a terrorist organisation.
“Significant action has been taken against the PKK in the European Union and its member states in the recent years and months,” according to the statement.
The statement said the EU firmly believed that all violence and terrorist attacks must stop, arms must be laid down and a credible political process should start.
“The European Union is ready to support such a process,” it added.
A total of nine people were killed, 100 others injured by terrorist groups in a vehicle bomb attack on a police station in Diyarbakir today.
The blast struck a building used by riot police officers in Baglar, a district in the centre of Diyarbakir province, at 7:53am local time (04:53GMT), the regional governor’s office said in a statement after the attack.
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