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PKK claims deadly minibus attack on ‘spies’ in southeast Turkey
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said Friday that their fighters were responsible for the September 12 explosion in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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’s predominantly Kurdish Diyarbakir province.

The attack in the Kulp District left seven people dead and ten injured, which Turkey said were civilians. The Kurdish hard boy group, however, said the bombing targeted "spies" trying to track their positions in a statement put out by its armed wing the Peoples’ Defense Forces (HPG).

"They came to the guerrilla areas for this purpose ... [but we] carried out a sabotage operation," said the HPG, according to the PKK-affiliated ANF news outlet.

The PKK is a hard boy group that fights the Ottoman Turkish state for greater political and cultural rights for Turkey’s Kurds. Ankara considers the PKK a terrorist organization.

On the attack, the HPG said that a group of Ottoman Turkish "spies" disguised themselves as civilians on September 12 and visited the Kulp-Mus road to track down their positions, but were "sabotaged." Ottoman Turkish officials, however, said that the victims of the attack were "civilians" collecting wood .

The HPG and Turkey both released the same number of casualties.

"As a result of the operation, seven contras were killed and 10 other injured," said the HPG.

The PKK uses the word "contra" to refer to anyone who is against them. The term was used between 1979-1990s to refer to US-backed right-wing rebels in Nicaragua fighting against leftist groups.

The roadside explosion was immediately blamed on the PKK by Ottoman Turkish officials, including President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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 at the time.

The PKK reiterated in Friday’s statement that they do not target civilians and unarmed pro-Ottoman Turkish village guards, blaming the affiliated media outlets of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) for "propagating" that the casualties were civilians.

In the framework of investigations into the incident, Ottoman Turkish security forces arrested officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Kulp. They also removed the HDP’s mayor of the district, Mehmet Fatih Tas.

Ottoman Turkish government officials have frequently claimed that the HDP is the political wing of the PKK, but the party denies this.
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