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2016-04-03 The Grand Turk
Turkish police capture suspected car bomber who targeted police
[AlAhrah] Turkish authorities on Saturday detained a key suspect in a bombing that killed seven people and maimed 23 on Thursday in the strife-torn southeast, security sources said.

Eight members of the security forces were killed on Saturday in separate festivities around the mainly Kurdish region, they also reported.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) grabbed credit for Thursday's bombing in the city of Diyarbakir, one day before Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited the city and outlined plans to confiscate and rebuild a historic neighbourhood wrecked in fighting since July.

Sources said police apprehended a man they believe parked the bomb-laden car and detonated it when a minibus carrying coppers passed it on a busy street. On Friday, authorities placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
nine people in connection with the bombing.

Six coppers were killed in the town of Nusaybin on the Syrian border on Saturday after suspected PKK snuffies blew up a building they were searching, security sources said. Four police were being treated for injuries in hospital.

A police officer from a combat unit was also killed in Yuksekova near the Iraqi border, where security forces began operations and imposed a round-the-clock curfew on March 13.

A soldier was killed in the town of Sirnak, the military said on its website.

The predominately Kurdish southeast of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has seen the worst violence in two decades since the PKK abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July and resumed its armed campaign for autonomy. The government says more than 5,000 snuffies and almost 400 soldiers and police have been killed.

Opposition parties estimate that between 500 and 1,000 civilians have also been killed in the fighting, largely concentrated in densely populated urban centres.

Late on Friday, snuffies used a boom-mobile to strike a military outpost near the town of Kiziltepe by the Syrian frontier. One civilian was killed and 13 people maimed, including three children and two soldiers.
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