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Kurdish group says it bombed
Istanbul-Turkey filling station
17.10.2005
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ISTANBUL, Oct 17
(AFP) - 12h17 - A radical Kurdish group said Monday
that it had planted a bomb that exploded at a
filling station in Istanbul, injuring five people,
one of them seriously.
"The action aimed at the service station (Sunday)
was carried out by a revenge commando of the TAK
(Kurdistan Freedom Falcons)," the organisation said
on its website.
It threatened it would undertake "even greater
operations" and make Turkey, which is fighting armed
separatist Kurdish groups in its southeast, "a
country that cannot be lived in".
Turkish authorities initially said the blast was the
result of a canister of liquefied petroleum gas
exploding but later said it was caused by a bomb.
Turkish newspapers said that the explosives used in
the remote-controlled bomb, which are being examined
by the police, were of a type commonly used by
Kurdish separatists.
The roof of the filling station collapsed with the
impact of the explosion, the windows of a shop
inside the station were shattered and pieces of
twisted metal were scattered around the site.
A series of bombs have exploded in Turkey since
July, several attributed to the TAK. The most deadly
killed five people, two of them foreign tourists, in
the Aegean seaside resort of Kusadasi, in July.
The banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has
fought for independence since 1984, says that the
TAK is made up of former members who have split from
it.
But the police say the PKK uses the name of the TAK
when it carries out actions that will be condemned
by international opinion.
AFP
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