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Police blow up bomb in Kurdistan-Southeastern
Turkey
27.10.2005
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ANKARA, Oct 27 (AFP)
- Police demolition experts blew up a box containing
a bomb in a town in Sanliurfa province, in
predominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkey
(Kurdistan), a local official said Thursday.
The package, left behind in a government building in
Viransehir, contained a device designed to cause a
loud noise rather than damage, the town's
sub-governor Yalcin Yilmaz told the Anatolia news
agency.
The controlled explosion late Wednesday caused no
injuries but shattered windows in nearby buildings,
the agency said.
Yilmaz said it was not yet clear who had planted the
bomb.
The area has seen a lengthy armed campaign by the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has
stepped up anti-government violence in the past
several months.
More than 37,000 people have died since 1984 when
the PKK, considered a terrorist group by Ankara, the
European Union and the United States, took up arms
for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast.
The rebels called off a six-week unilateral
ceasefire with Ankara earlier this month.
AFP
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