The bride of a Turkish officer weeps in the midst of dancing revellers, after her groom missed the wedding ceremony in southern Turkey.

A Turkish cop missed his own wedding party after being denied permission to leave his station in the southeast due to PKK terror activities, local media reported.

Ahmet Karavelioglu, 25, had received the green light from his paramilitary police unit to attend the celebration in southern Osmaniye province on Sept. 18.

But on the big day, his sobbing 21-year-old bride Fatma was left to welcome guests at her parents-in-laws’ alone, after Karavelioglu’s superiors decided the road from his station on the border with Iraq was unsafe for him to travel.

Video footage released by Cihan news agency showed the betrothed, in full white wedding regalia with a garland of flowers in her hair, standing weeping in the midst of dancing revellers.

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