Seven people were killed and almost 30 injured when a bomb exploded in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday.
The bomb went off as a vehicle carrying special forces and riot police passed by a bus station in the Kurdish-dominated city in the south-east of the country.
Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, was supposed to visit the city on Friday.
The Turkish army has long been fighting rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the region. A ceasefire between the government and the PKK collapsed in July last year.
Last week, Erdoğan lashed out at Western leaders for their alleged support for the PKK at a time when Turkey is enduring “one of the biggest waves of terrorism in its history.”