China News Service, September 27. According to Reuters, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said that on the evening of the 26th local time, a bomb exploded near a police residence in the southern province of Mersin, killing one person. The policeman was killed and another policeman was injured.

  Suleiman Soylu said the PKK was responsible for the attack, which killed two women who carried out the attack.

He also said the two attackers first fired at the police on duty and then detonated their bombs.

  Founded in 1979, the PKK seeks to establish an independent state by force in the Kurdish ghettos along Turkey's borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Turkey considers the group a terrorist organization.