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The Grand Turk
Six Killed, 39 Wounded in PKK Car Bombing in Turkish City
2016-01-15
[BLOOMBERG] The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, detonated a boom-mobile outside a cop shoppe in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's largest southeastern city, killing six people including three children, and deepening insecurity that has gripped the country.

The blast in Cinar on Wednesday night, just a day after a suicide kaboom blamed on Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
killed 10 tourists in Istanbul, brought down part of a house next to the cop shoppe and ripped off the facade of a police apartment building. A policeman and three children, including a 5-month-old infant, were among the dead, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Thirty-nine others were maimed, the governor's office in Diyarbakir said in a statement.

The kaboom turned the police apartment building into a blackened skeleton and shattered many windows in the town, according to NTV television footage. The murderous Moslems simultaneously sprayed the paramilitary headquarters with automatic weapons; no injuries were reported. Police detained two suspects in connection with the bombing, Hurriyet newspaper reported.

Wednesday's attack is the latest amid an eruption of violence in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. The area is in the throes of a spiraling war between the autonomy-seeking PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S. and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, and Turkish forces. Several neighborhoods in towns and cities have been turned into war zones, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and abandon businesses, according to the governor's office in Diyarbakir.

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