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Pair kidnapped as Turkey arrests alleged
Kurdish bombers
16.12.2005
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, Dec 15 (AFP) - 17h32 - Two alleged
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels were arrested
in this southeastern Turkish city Thursday on
suspicion they were plotting to bomb public
buildings, officials said.
The security forces seized a fire extinguisher
containing explosives, set up to be detonated from a
distance by mobile phone, police sources said.
In a separate incident, two relatives of a former
Kurdish member of parliament were kidnapped in the
neighboring province of Batman, officials said.
Masuk and Yunus Isen, aged 30 and 32, were abducted
late Tuesday after their car was stopped on a rural
road.
Anatolia news agency said the men were kidnapped by
PKK militants, although officials could not confirm
the report.
A search operation was under way to find the two
men, nephews of Burhan Isen, a former deputy from
the center-right Motherland Party.
Unrest in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast inceased
this year after the PKK called off a five-year
unilateral ceasefire in June 2004.
Since the PKK -- considered a terrorist group by
Ankara, the European Union and the United States --
took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in 1984 the
conflict has claimed about 37,000 lives.
AFP
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