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One injured in suspected Kurdish rebel
bomb attack
4.6.2005
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ANKARA, June 3 (AFP) - 17h33 - One man was
injured Friday when a bomb believed to have been
planted by Kurdish rebels went off at a base station
for mobile phones in the south of the country, a
local official told the Anatolia news agency.
The bomb exploded as technicians were repairing the
station near the town of Hassa in Hatay province
which borders Syria, leaving a 30-year-old man
critically injured, Governor Abdulkadir Sari said.
He said rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) were believed to be behind the blast.
The PKK waged a bloody campaign for self-rule in
Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast from 1984 to 1999,
which claimed some 37,000 lives.
The group declared a unilateral ceasefire in 1999
after its leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured and
tried in Turkey, and most of the rebels withdrew
into neighbouring northern Iraq.
But it called off the truce last year on the grounds
that reforms undertaken by the government to expand
Kurdish freedoms were insufficient.
The Turkish army said last month that an increasing
number of PKK militants were sneaking back to Turkey
from Iraq to engage in anti-government violence,
bringing along "large amounts" of explosives.
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