Policeman killed in blast

Agence France-Presse

The incident occurred outside the police station in the town of Aliağa in the western province of İzmir, NTV said. The package had been left outside the building and the victim was one of the bomb experts who had come to defuse it, the report said.

Kurdish separatists, leftist militants and Islamist radicals have been known to have carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.