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Two police officers were killed and nine people were wounded in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack late on Oct. 22 in the eastern province of Bingöl, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.        
         
PKK militants detonated a bomb-laden vehicle as a police vehicle carrying officers passed by at the entrance to Bingöl, according to security sources.

Helicopters destroyed three bomb-loaded cars in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Oct. 11 and 12. 
Attack helicopters opened fire after noticing that bombs had been loaded into cars for use in attacks by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, according to a statement issued by the Diyarbakır Governor's Office on Oct. 13.

One soldier was killed and five security personnel were wounded on Oct. 13 when outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants detonated an explosive in a rural area of the Beytüşşebap district of the southeastern province of Şırnak, Doğan News Agency has reported.

An 11-year-old boy died and two others were wounded on Oct. 11 due to the explosion of an unidentified object while they were playing in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.   

Two outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed and five were detained in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak in an armed clash with police officers, who were raiding a house on Oct. 11 after receiving intelligence that militants were preparing a suicide bomb attack. 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has denied that Turkey has a "Kurdish problem," saying there is instead only an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) "terror problem" that hinders development in the country's eastern and southeastern provinces.

Six outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were killed in clashes with Turkish security forces in the Black Sea province of Ordu late on Sept. 29. Clashes erupted in the province's rural Mesudiye district after security forces determined there were militants from the outlawed group in the region. 

A fire erupted in a jail in the southeastern province of Şırnak on Sept. 28, killing one prisoner and severely injuring another, while 12 employees working at the jail were also hospitalized.
The fire, the cause of which is yet unconfirmed, erupted in the juvenile section of the prison and initially injured 14 people, including two prisoners who attempted to fight the flames. 

The bodies of six dead outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants were found in a house in the southeastern province of Şırnak on Sept. 28. The militants were found with their guns, Anadolu Agency reported.

At least 10 Turkish soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded on Sept. 26 in two separate attacks by the militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast.

Six soldiers were killed in an atack on a checkpoint in Şırnak, while four others were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Mardin's Derik district.