Colonel Ahmet Kilic and privates Huseyin Aslan and Murat Bekirgul were taken to Hatay Military Hospital.

Police officers Abbas Kalender, Huseyin Kirazbilek, Sacit Kaskati, Hakan Baburhan and other four officers --whose identities were not revealed-- are under treatment at Bozkaya Training & Research Hospital.

Abbas Kalender is in serious condition.

Early in the morning, a car parked in front of military and police shuttles exploded in Konak town of Izmir.

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