The Doğan news agency has reported that the protesters, who were wearing masks, stopped the sergeant`s car and set it on fire after they assaulted him. The group included about 50 demonstrators who gathered to protest the bomb attack by a suspected Islamic State in
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) member, which hit Suruç on Monday and killed 32 people and injured more than 100. The group set up barricades on the road and checked the identities of drivers passing through. Realizing that one of the cars belonged to a soldier, the group set the car on fire.
Also, the General Staff reported that in the town of Cizre in Şırnak province masked attackers threw homemade explosives at two barracks and opened fire with rifles on Monday night. There were no casualties.
The US, the EU and Turkey designate the PKK a terrorist organization.
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