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Kurdish group claims Istanbul bombing
14.2.2006
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ISTANBUL, Turkey
Feb 14, -- A bomb exploded at an Istanbul
supermarket during Monday's afternoon rush, injuring
15 people. A Kurdish news agency reported that a
Kurdish militant group claimed responsibility for
the attack, which came days after a fatal bombing at
an Internet cafe in the city.
In an e-mail, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons
Organization said it carried out both attacks in
response to Turkey's policies toward the Kurdish
people, the Firat News Agency said on its Web site.
The shadowy group - believed linked to the main
Kurdish guerrilla group, Kurdistan Workers Party, or
PKK - has claimed responsibility for a number of
bomb attacks in Turkey, including a blast in the
Aegean resort town of Cesme last summer that wounded
21 people. The same group had also claimed
Thursday's bomb attack on the Internet cafe, which
killed one person and injured 15, including seven
policemen.
"From now on, we will continue our actions
uninterrupted" until the Turkish government changes
its policies, the militant group said.
Turkey maintains its military drive against the
autonomy-seeking Kurdish rebels and does not
recognize its sizable Kurdish population as an
official minority.
The bomb blast at the supermarket damaged a wall and
shattered windows.
"I was sitting inside when the explosion shattered
the windows," said Zikri Cetinkaya, 48, who had been
in a real estate office next door to the
supermarket. "I immediately ducked and waited
inside, I saw the ambulances outside but I was so
afraid to walk to the market."
Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy
in the southeast since 1984, a battle that has so
far claimed 37,000 lives. The European Union and the
United States consider the PKK to be a terrorist
organization.
AP
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