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Kurdish militants say they planted
Istanbul bomb
17.6.2006
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ISTANBUL, June
16, 2006 (AFP) , - A radical Kurdish group on Friday
claimed responsibility for a bomb attack a day
earlier in a busy Istanbul neighbourhood, vowing
more violence in response to what it called the
mistreatment of Kurds in Turkey.
"Our acts are a stand against the annihilation
system against the Kurdish people," said a statement
posted on the website of the Kurdistan Freedom
Falcons (TAK).
"Our acts of reprisal will intensify and diversify
as long the shadow of death remains on the people of
Kurdistan," it added.
Four people were slightly injured in Thursday's
attack when a time bomb placed in a garbage
container went off near a bus stop in the crowded
business and tourist district of Eminonu.
Turkish officials say TAK is a front which the
separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) uses for
its attacks on civilian targets while the PKK claims
TAK is a splinter group over which it has no
control.
TAK has acknowledged responsibility for several
deadly bomb attacks in urban centers across Turkey
since last year.
More than 37,000 people have been killed since 1984
when the PKK, blacklisted by Turkey, the United
States and the European Union, took up arms for
self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast.
Tension has escalated in the southeast since June
2004 when the group called off a unilateral
ceasefire.
AFP
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