A news outlet linked to the Islamic State group said its fighters were behind a bombing that killed nine people and injured more than 100 in southeastern Turkey, U.S. monitors said.
"Fighters from the Islamic State detonated an explosives-laden vehicle parked in front of a Turkish police headquarters in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey," the SITE Intelligence Group quoted the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency as saying on November 4.
Turkish authorities had blamed the blast in Diyarbakir, Turkey's main majority-Kurdish city, on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party.
In an audio message released earlier this week, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi broke a year-old silence to call for attacks against Turkey, and urged his fighters to hold their ground against Iraqi troops moving to retake the IS stronghold of Mosul.
