ISTANBUL
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Turkish dailies on Thursday covered the murder of two policemen Wednesday as well as Monday's deadly bomb attack, both in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province near the Syrian border.
Two police officers were found shot dead at their shared home in the Ceylanpinar district in an attack claimed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The double killing comes just two days after the province was hit by a suicide bomber, which left 32 people dead in Suruc.
"Big trap" was AKSAM’s headline, saying that recent incidents in Turkey are evidence of a "dirty plot" against the country.
The paper quoted an 18-yer-old PKK member who told local police before the incidents: "There will be protests after July 20."
Cemil Bayik, a leading PKK member, called on the public the same day to "be armed, and dig tunnels in their neighborhoods," the paper claims.
The PKK has claimed responsibility for the deaths of two policemen -- Okan Acar, 25, and Feyyaz Yumusak, 24 -- and seized their guns and ID cards, MILLIYET wrote.
Four PKK members went inside the building, shot them dead and later fled to Syria, the paper claimed.
On Wednesday, the PKK also burned 12 buses and cars which were heading to eastern Igdir province from Erzurum, the paper added, reporting no deaths.
When the two young policemen did not appear at work, their colleagues went to check their home. They found them shot in the head, HURRIYET wrote.
VATAN told the story of two close friends, 20-year-old Polen Unlu and Ezgi Sadet, who died in Monday’s Suruc attack. They went to Suruc together preparing to visit Kobani, the Syrian town devastated by fighting between Daesh and Kurdish forces.
They are now buried in Istanbul's Ihlamurkuyu graveyard.
VATAN quoted the father of the suicide bomber, 20-year-old Seyh Abdurrahman Alagoz, saying: "He wouldn't hurt a fly. I do not know who deceived him."
Turkish police on Wednesday officially identified Alagoz from a Turkish identity card found at the site of bombing. According to the police, Alagoz and his brother Yunus Emre went missing from their home in the southeastern province of Adiyaman six months ago.
HABER TURK quoted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who "damned the terror of PKK and Daesh".
"Our state is against any type of terror, and is ready to use every means available to find the perpetrators of both attacks," Erdogan said in a written statement. "Those who are targeting our peace and unity will never be tolerated," he added.
STAR criticized pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) leader Selahattin Demirtas for "not speaking a word against PKK attacks".
The HDP has been making provocative speeches since the Suruc attack, the paper said, "but there is no condemnation over PKK terror in Ceylanpinar".
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, meanwhile, said Turkey's border security system would be reinforced, YENI SAFAK reported.
Physical blocks will be made to stop the passage of terrorists, the paper quoted Arinc as saying.
President Barack Obama also condemned a series of attacks in eastern Turkey during a phone call with President Erdogan, SABAH wrote.
Obama spoke with Erdogan about “deepening our ongoing cooperation in the fight against ISIL [Daesh] and common efforts to bring security and stability to Iraq and a political settlement to the conflict in Syria,” the paper wrote.
