2016 Elazığ bombing

On 18 August 2016, a Thursday, a car bombing struck a police station in Elazığ, Turkey. According to Wikipedia's summary of the event, the attack was perpetrated by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The bombing killed six people in total, including one of the perpetrators, and injured 217 others. Two people were arrested in connection with the attack.

The PKK, which claimed responsibility for the attack, asserted that it had killed more than 100 police officers and wounded over 150. This claimed toll differs substantially from the reported casualty figures of six deaths and 217 injuries.

The day after the attack, crowds gathered to protest the assault on the police headquarters.

This dossier is based on a single detailed source (the English Wikipedia article on the bombing), supplemented by two contemporaneous Turkish-language news references cited by that article. Those two references — from Al Jazeera Turkish and Diken — are included here as corroborating citations per the case record, but no additional factual claims have been drawn from their text, as their content was not independently retrieved for this dossier.