PKK explosives discovered hidden in family cemetery of AK Party official

As much as 640 kilograms of explosives belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group have been found in the family cemetery of AK Party Deputy Chairman Mehdi Eker in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır.

The explosives, were hidden at five different areas by the PKK terrorists around the Eker family cemetery in Diyarbakır's Bismil district.

The handmade explosives, made with propane cylinders, were found and defused.

Eker said that he was going to visit his family cemetery as he does every Eid. "I was about to visit the cemetery tomorrow. I do this every year and it is something that is well known by everyone," he said.

"It is a brutal attempt. They were planning to conduct an attack that would be a barn burner," he said.

The PKK and its affiliated group have been targeting many Turkish cities intensively and Turkey has been fighting against the PKK terrorists both through land and air operations in southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq since July 2015.

Since that date about 7,000 PKK terrorists have been killed.