DIYARBAKIR: A news outlet linked to the Islamic State said its fighters staged a bombing that killed 11 people in southeastern Turkey, according to US-based monitors, after Ankara blamed Kurdish militants for the attack. The early morning attack on a police headquarters in the Kurdish-majority of Diyarbakir left 11 people dead, including two police, and over 100 wounded. It said in a statement Demirtas had been taken to court just before the attack and Yuksekdag was in the complex when it happened. The two co-leaders and 10 other HDP MPs have now been placed under arrest ahead of trial by the courts. Demirtas and Yuksekdag have been transferred by air to prisons in the western regions of Edirne and Kocaeli respectively, well away from Diyarbakir.

Source: New Strait Times November 05, 2016 14:27 UTC