Another Turkish official assassinated in Southeast

Gunmen Tuesday burst into the office of Deryan Aktert, head of the Turkish ruling party’s branch in the southeastern region of Diyarbakir and shot him dead. A day earlier, drive-by shooters killed Aydin Mustu, the ruling party's deputy leader in the Ozalp district of Van, a city 350km to the east of Diyarbakir near the Iranian border..

The separatist Kurdish PKK Workers Party is suspected of both attacks. 

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