In Turkey, a car bomb blast has killed at least six people and wounded 39 after hitting a southeastern police headquarters. No one has taken responsibility for the attack, but the Turkish government is blaming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 academics, including Noam Chomsky, have signed a letter calling for the end to the Turkish government’s widespread crackdown on Kurdish communities amid renewed fighting between Turkish security forces and the PKK. Under the banner Academics for Peace, the letter states: “[Turkey] has attacked these settlements with heavy weapons and equipment that would only be mobilized in wartime. … This deliberate and planned massacre is in serious violation of Turkey’s own laws and international treaties to which Turkey is a party.”