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Turkey disarms pipeline bomb, finds
explosive cache
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August
30, 2010
DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish Southeastern
region of Turkey, — Security forces in Turkey
disarmed a bomb placed along an oil pipeline and
found 65 kilos (143 pounds) of explosives stashed in
a car, officials said Sunday.
The bomb, which consisted of 20 kilos of explosives
and two propane tanks rigged to a timer, was
discovered along the pipeline linking oil fields in
Batman province to Diyarbakir, said the region's
governor Mustafa Toprak.
The PKK Kurdish rebel group claimed responsibility
for an August 10 blast that hit another pipeline
linking Kirkuk in Iraqi Kurdistan region to Turkey's
Mediterranean port of Ceyhan and killed two people.
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Turkish pipeline. |
Turkish security forces
also arrested late Saturday three suspected members
of the PKK Kurdish rebel group after finding 65
kilos (143 pounds) of explosives stashed in their
car,www.ekurd.netsecurity
officials said.
The explosives were found in the fuel tank of the
car, which was intercepted in Diyarbakir, the main
city in the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey.
The discoveries come as the PKK is supposed to be
observing a unilateral ceasefire it called for a
period that covers the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
and a referendum on constitutional changes to be
held on September 12.
Since 1984 the PKK [Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan] took up arms for self-rule in the
mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey
[Turkey-Kurdistan] which has claimed around 45,000
lives of Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas, the party also demanded an
end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
A large Turkey's Kurdish community estimate to over
20
million openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK
rebels.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
The PKK is considered a 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
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