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

Police were investigating the incidents, Anatolia said.

The blasts followed a security operation in Silopi earlier this week in which two suspected Kurdish rebels and seven other people who were allegedly aiding them were detained on suspicion that they were planning what an official statement described as "simultaneous sensational bombings/armed attacks."

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