Kurdish group claims ‘revenge murder’ on Turkish police

The armed wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party has claimed responsibility for killing two Turkish police officers, saying the murders were reprisals for a suicide attack in the border town of Suruc.

"A punitive action was carried out… in revenge for the massacre in Suruc," the People's Defence Forces said in a statement on its website on Wednesday, accusing the two officers of cooperating with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The two police officers were found shot dead at their home in the town of Ceylanpinar on the border with Syria, two days after the Suruc suicide attack that killed 32 people, mostly ethnic Kurds.