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Turkey: Istanbul blast blamed on Kurdish
rebels
20.11.2005
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ISTANBUL, Nov 19
(AFP) - Separatist Kurdish rebels were behind a
recent bomb attack that killed one person and
wounded 12 in Turkey's biggest city Istanbul, the
Anatolia news agency quoted a senior official as
saying Saturday
"We know it was the work of the separatist
organization," Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler told
reporters, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK).
"The perpetrators will be captured in the shortest
possible time."
He said one of the injured remained in critical
condition after Friday's blast in a garbage
container at a bus stop in the district of
Beylikduzu.
A series of bomb blasts, several of them deadly
incidents blamed on the PKK, have hit Istanbul and
tourist resorts in western Turkey since July.
Friday's attack followed violent protests and riots
in the mainly Kurdish southeast, which have claimed
four lives, after the November 9 bombing of a
bookstore owned by a former Kurdish guerrilla,
widely blamed on the security forces.
Unrest in the region has markedly escalated after
the PKK, blacklisted as a terrorist group by Turkey,
the European Union and the United States, called off
a five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.
The Kurdish conflict has claimed some 37,000 lives
since the PKK took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in
the southeast in 1984.
AFP
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