Turkey to take 'all necessary measures' to protect national security - PM's office

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan looks on durin his visit to Northern Cyprus July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Harun Ukar

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will take "all necessary measures" to protect public order and national security following attacks by Islamic State and Kurdish militants, the prime minister's office said in a statement on Thursday. Turkey has been hit by a wave of violence in the largely Kurdish southeast after a suspected Islamic State suicide bombing killed 32 people, many of them Kurds, in a town on the Syrian border. Kurdish militants have responded by attacking policeman who they say supported Islamic State. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Alison Williams)