Burcu Arik
16 December 2015•Update: 16 December 2015
ISTANBUL
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Turkish dailies on Wednesday mainly dedicated their front pages to Tuesday's terrorist organization PKK-led bomb attack which martyred three police officers in southeastern Diyarbakir province.
"Three police martyred in Diyarbakir" was HURRIYET's headline, reporting that the attack targeted an armored vehicle while passing on a highway near the Silvan district.
According to paper, the perpetrators of the attack had also burned a municipality bus in the province before the attack.
SABAH ran a front-page headline "Treacherous ambush".
The daily said the attack also wounded three policemen. A major operation was launched in the area to apprehend the terrorists, the paper reported.
The PKK -- considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU -- resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in late July.
Since then, official figures indicate more than 200 members of the security forces have been martyred and over 1,700 PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq, including airstrikes.
In other news, Turkish papers also covered the arrest of a suspected Daesh militant for allegedly planning a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. mission in Istanbul.
"Arrested" was VATAN's headline wrote, adding that the suspect, whose mother is apparently "responsible for women in Daesh", was arrested at a bus station in the southern city of Kahramanmaras.
According to the newspaper, the suspect was on his way to a cell house in the southern province of Gaziantep.
HABERTURK wrote "The bomber seized". The daily said the police had kept a close watch on the suspect who traveled to Kahramanmaras from the Samsun province on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.
Police identified him as a Syrian named Muhammed Raghil al Hardani, aged in his late twenties or early thirties.
The U.S. mission in Istanbul cancelled consular services on Dec. 9 due to a “possible security threat” and on Monday and Tuesday, the embassy in Ankara limited services for security reasons.
Hardani originally entered Turkey from Syria, the security source said.
Many Turkish dailies also addressed the release of the new Star Wars sequel, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which will hit Turkish theatres Thursday.
"And the force awakens" MILLIYET headlined. The daily reported that the world premiere of the movie was held on Monday in Los Angeles.
Nearly 5,000 people attended the premiere along with the movie's famous clone army Stormtroopers and droids, R2-D2 and C-3P0, present on the red carpet, the paper added.
