Thread: Suidice bomber kills 3 and wounds 20 in southeastern Turkey

Suicide bomber kills three in southeast Turkey
30 October 2011, Sunday / REUTERS, BINGÖL



A female suicide bomber in southeast Turkey killed three people and wounded around 20 in Bingöl, a province in the mainly Kurdish region on Saturday, police said.


The blast occurred at a tea house close to the office of the ruling AK Party in Bingöl's main street at around 1.20 p.m. (1020 GMT), Interior Minister İdris Naim Şahin said.

Police said the woman had detonated explosives strapped to her body. They also said they were hunting for another suspected bomber, and a cordon had been thrown round the town, 110 km north of Diyarbakır, the region's main city.

"It was a very quiet day. There was nothing extraordinary. There were no policeman, no (paramilitary) gendarme in the street," one bystander told Reuters.

"Suddenly we heard an explosion and screaming. People ran towards there to help people injured. Then we saw paramedics coming."

Turkey is fighting a long-running separatist insurgency in the southeast, and the blast comes as the government is trying to provide relief to thousands of people made homeless by a powerful earthquake in the largely Kurdish Van province.

Şahin was addressing a news conference in Van, where he is part of the team overseeing relief work.

In Diyarbakır, police used water cannons to disperse stone-throwing youths in a protest as the bodies of 24 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants killed in a military operation more than a week ago were held in a morgue in nearby Malatya province.

The military killed 49 in total after mounting a hunt for militants on the border with northern Iraq, after 24 Turkish soldiers were killed in simultaneous attacks on their posts in Hakkari, the most southeasterly province.

In Hakkari on Saturday, soldiers shot a mule they suspected militants had packed with explosives and sent towards them. They later detonated the explosives on the dead animal.

The PKK has carried out suicide attacks like the one in Bingöl during its armed campaign but splinter groups have often claimed responsibility for such attacks in recent years.

Turkey, the European Union and the United States list the PKK as a terrorist organization. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict, since the PKK launched its bloody campaign in 1984.

Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-2613...st-turkey.html

More then 24 Turkish soldiers killed/why has AKP no will to solve Kurdish problem?

Since the Turks support Hamas, surely they also sympathize when people fight against other forms of oppression

Originally Posted by litwin

More then 24 Turkish soldiers killed/why has AKP no will to solve Kurdish problem?

What comes around goes around buddy. Why won't you contact the AKP which you seem love so much then.

Originally Posted by DutchClogCyborg

Since the Turks support Hamas, surely they also sympathize when people fight against other forms of oppression

WHOOOPSSSS, sorry I doubt this doesn't sound Islamic enough to condemn. So I take it you consider that was a good blast? It is funny how you accuse some of hypocrisy over such issues, while being hypocrite yourself.

Stop generalizing that bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Not all Turks support Hamas. I condemn any such actions carried out by Hamas, and post it on this whenever I notice any thread releated to one. Because I'm not a hypocrite bigot like you. I don't support Hamas, particularly any organization holding the Islamist ideology.

Now (*)(*)(*)(*).