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| The Grand Turk |
| One killed in Turkey blast |
| 2011-10-01 |
| [Iran Press TV] One person has been killed in an kaboom outside a military police headquarters near the southern Turkish city of Antalya, reports say. Two others were also maimed in the blast in the Kemer district of the resort city on Friday. The blast also damaged several cars and smashed windows of nearby buildings. While some reports suggest a bomber triggered the kaboom, Deputy Governor Recep Yuksel told the state-run Anatolia news agency that the cause of the latest blast remained unclear, adding that it happened far from any tourist area. The blast came nearly ten days after a car booming near a school in Ankara killed three people and maimed 34 others. No group has yet grabbed credit for the Friday attack, but the finger of blame has been pointed at the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a terrorist group known to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Last month, the TAK threatened attacks targeting civilians and tourists in response to recent military strikes targeting the PKK. TAK has grabbed credit for a small bombing in Kemer on Aug. 28, which left 10 people, including four Swedish nationals, maimed. A bombing, also claimed by the Falcons, left 32 people maimed in Istanbul in November 2010. |
| Posted by:Fred |