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Kurd rebel conducted suicide bombing in SE
Turkey
13.3.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, March 13 (Reuters) - The outlawed
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said one of its
members had carried out a suicide bombing in
southeast Turkey last week in which two other people
were also killed.
"It has been determined that the action in Van on
March 9 was undertaken by Devrim Solduk, codenamed
Dengtav, on his own initiative and decision," the
group said in a statement late on Sunday, adding
that the explosion had been an "accident".
"In a letter our friend left, he said he would carry
out such an action because the Turkish state
launched a destructive process against our leader
Apo," it said.
Apo is the codename of Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK
leader captured by Turkish security forces in 1999
and sentenced to life imprisonment on an island near
Istanbul.
Ocalan is reviled in much of Turkey as the man
responsible for the deaths of more than 30,000
people since the PKK launched its armed struggle in
1984 for a Kurdish state in southeast Turkey.
There is much less violence in the southeast now
than at the height of the conflict in the 1980s and
1990s. But a series of bomb blasts in the region in
recent months has stirred fears the conflict could
be rekindled.
As well as the deaths, 19 people were injured in the
March 9 blast, which occurred near the Van
governor's office. Officials said at the time they
believed it was a suicide bomb.
The PKK statement said Solduk was born in 1977 in
the southeastern town of Siverek and had studied at
Istanbul's Yildiz Technical University before
joining the rebels.
Reuters
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