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Bomb explodes outside HSBC branch in
Turkey
16.3.2006
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DIYARBAKIR,
Kurdistan-Turkey, March 15 - A bomb exploded
outside a branch of British-based HSBC bank in
Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey (Kurdistan-Turkey), on
Wednesday and one person was injured, security
officials said.
The bomb was planted in an automated teller machine
and caused serious damage, the officials said.
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels have set off a
series of bombs in the mainly Kurdish southeast in
recent months.
Ankara blames the PKK for some 30,000 deaths since
the rebels launched an armed campaign for an
independent Kurdish homeland in 1984. Earlier this
month, Turkey launched a large operation against
rebels near the Iraqi border.
Another Kurdish group called the Kurdish Liberation
Hawks, widely thought to have links to the PKK, is
also running a bombing campaign and last month
attacked an Istanbul supermarket and an Internet
cafe.
HSBC's Istanbul branch was among targets hit by a
series of suicide attacks in 2003 which killed more
than 60 people. Responsibility was claimed by a
group linked to al Qaeda.
No one at HSBC was available to comment on
Wednesday.
The European Union -- which started membership talks
with Turkey last October -- has urged Ankara to do
more to relieve poverty in the southeast and to
increase the cultural rights of its large ethnic
Kurdish population.
Reuters
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