The blasts ocurred outside shops at three separate locations in Silopi, at the Iraqi border, in the province of Sirnak, local police told AFP.

Two blasts went off simultaneously at around 8:30 pm (1830 GMT), while the third followed in about 15 minutes, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency reported.

The semi-official Anatolia news agency said one person was wounded, while Firat reported several injured.

The blasts followed a police operation in Silopi earlier this week in which two suspected Kurdish rebels and seven accomplices were detained on suspicion that they were planning "simultaneous sensational bombings/armed attacks," according to an official statement.

The security forces also seized weapons and about a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of plastic explosives in the homes of the suspects and a member of Silopi's township council, identified by the media as the town's Kurdish deputy mayor who remained at large and was wanted by the police.

Unrest in the southeast rose noticeably this year after the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States, called off a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.

The Kurdish conflict in Turkey has claimed some 37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast.