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Turkey: Park blast kills two, 14 were
wounded 4.9.2006
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Turkey, September
4,-- Two people including a policeman died on Sunday
after being injured in a bomb explosion blamed on
Kurdish separatists in heavily Kurdish eastern
Turkey (Kurdistan-Turkey), the Anatolia news agency
reported.
The two were among 16 people who were wounded when
the device, hidden in a rubbish bin, exploded in a
park in the town of Van earlier on Sunday evening,
the agency said.
Van officials immediately blamed the separatist
Kurdistan Workers Party for the bombing. The park is
a popular evening gathering place for the families
of local civil servants.
The blast came less than a week after a bombing at
the popular Turkish resort of Antalya that killed
three people. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed
responsibility for that attack.
Bloody weekend
It also caps a bloody weekend in which Kurdish
separatists killed eight Turkish troops in various
incidents including a rebel attack on a police post
and a remote-detonated landmine.
The PKK is the main militant group which has been
fighting for a separate homeland for Turkey's large
Kurdish minority. It is considered a terrorist
organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the
United States.
More than 37 000 lives have been lost in the Kurdish
insurrection which began in 1984 with Kurdish
demands for independence in the southeast.
The PKK imposed a unilateral ceasefire in 1999,
after the capture of its leader Abdullah Ocalan, but
ended it in 2004.
At least 98 militants and 75 members of the security
forces have died in the unrest so far this year,
according to an AFP count.
Turkish officials say TAK is a front for the PKK,
which denies this.
Besides Antalya, TAK has claimed 12 other bomb
attacks in urban centres across the country this
year in which six people were killed and more than
100 others injured.
AFP
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey
The Kurdish flag flown in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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