In Turkey, at least five police officers were killed and more than 100 people wounded by car bomb attacks in eastern Turkey on Wednesday and Thursday. The Turkish government blamed the attacks on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. Earlier this week, Turkish authorities shut down a newspaper in Istanbul and arrested some of its staff after claiming the paper supported the PKK. The newspaper’s closure is part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent in Turkey following a failed military coup in July.