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Turkey: Six held after bombing of Istanbul
filling station
30.10.2005
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ISTANBUL, Oct 29
(AFP) - 15h10 - Six people were being held by police
in connection with a bomb blast at a filling station
in Istanbul claimed by a Kurdish group that injured
five people, Anatolia news agency said, quoting
security sources.
The agency said the six were suspected of belonging
to the banned separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The blast on October 15 was claimed by the Kurdistan
Freedom Falcons (TAK), which threatened to undertake
"even greater operations" and make Turkey "a country
that cannot be lived in".
Anatolia said four of the men were arrested in
Istanbul and two at Diyarbakir, the main
Kurdish-majority city in southeast Turkey. Of the
latter, one was suspected of driving the car that
carried the bomb, and the other of being a
go-between.
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 PKK, which has fought for independence since
1984, says 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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