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| 2016 Cizre bombing | |
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| Part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present) Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) | |
| Location | Cizre, Şırnak, Turkey |
| Coordinates | 37°20′23.1″N 42°11′46.0″E / 37.339750°N 42.196111°E |
| Date | 26 August 2016 06:45 (UTC+03:00) |
| Target | Cizre District Police Department, Riot Control Police checkpoint |
Attack type | Car bomb, suicide attack |
| Deaths | 13 |
| Injured | 78 |
| Perpetrators | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) |
| Assailant | Mustafa Aslan |
| Motive | Anti-Turkish |
| Suicide attacks in Turkey |
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The 2016 Cizre bombing was a suicide bombing by PKK member Mustafa Aslan in Cizre, Turkey. The assailant used a car bomb to attack a police checkpoint outside the police headquarters. Twelve police officers and Aslan were killed in addition to 75 police officers and three civilians injured.
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