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Kurdish Group Takes Credit for Bombing in
Turkey 25.9.2006
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Newsdesk,
September 25, -- A Kurdish guerrilla group claimed
responsibility for a weekend bomb attack that
wounded 17 people in eastern Turkey, a pro-Kurdish
news agency reported Monday.
The armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or
PKK, said on its Web site that it was behind
Saturday's attack near a police guest house in the
eastern city of Igdir, according to the Firat news
agency.
The group also claimed responsibility for another
bombing Saturday that derailed a freight train in
southeastern Turkey.
Saturday's attacks coincided with complaints by
imprisoned rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan about his
prison conditions.
The attacks also follow a recent declaration of
cooperation between Turkey, the United States and
Iraq in fighting the guerrillas, who are believed to
be based in northern Iraq.
The guerrillas have intensified their attacks,
carrying out bombings in Mediterranean resorts that
killed at least three people and wounded dozens. One
of the attacks, a minibus bombing in the popular
resort town of Marmaris wounded 10 Britons in late
August.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was quoted Monday as
saying the PKK could declare a new cease-fire in the
coming days. Talabani spoke to Turkey's state-owned
Anatolia news agency during a visit to the United
States.
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
of Turkey.
AP
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 officially 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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