Turkey: Eleven Police Officers Killed In Cizre Car Bomb Attack

At least 11 police officers have been killed in a car bomb attack in southeast Turkey.

Dozens of other people were injured in the blast, which happened near the headquarters of an anti-riot police force in the town of Cizre.

The state-run Anadolu news agency says that rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) used a suicide truck bomb to carry out the attack at a police checkpoint.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said: "We will give those vile (attackers) the answer they deserve.

"No terrorist organisation can hold Turkey captive."

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The Turkish health ministry says it sent a dozen ambulances and two helicopters to the police building.

Cizre is in Sirnak, a province that borders both Syria and Iraq and has a largely Kurdish population.

The PKK has been involved in almost daily clashes in the region since July 2015, when its ceasefire with the government collapsed.

The group is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sky News foreign affairs editor Sam Kiley said that Cizre had been a "hotbed of resistance to Turkish rule".

He added: "It has been the scene of very heavy fighting and widespread destruction over the last year, in tit-for-tat exchanges between the Turkish military and Kurdish elements.

"This is one of a string of attacks against security forces who have hit back extremely hard in the past."