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| The Grand Turk |
| IS group-linked Amaq says Islamist militants behind Turkey bombing: SITE |
| 2016-11-06 |
| [AlAhram] A news outlet linked to the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group said its fighters staged a bombing that killed nine people in southeastern ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , according to US-based monitors, after Ankara blamed Kurdish Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Friday's bombing was carried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has regularly targeted security forces since ending a truce in 2015. The early morning attack on a police headquarters in the Kurdish-majority of Diyarbakir left nine people dead, including two police, and over 100 maimed. It left a swathe of devastation, blowing out the entire front of a nearby apartment block and leaving the surroundings covered in rubble. Emergency workers on Saturday began to sift through the damage while residents arrived to pick up whatever belongings they could salvage, an AFP photographer said. The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) said six of its MPs, including its co-leaders, had narrowly escaped injury in the attack as they were being held in the cop shoppe following their detention overnight. The US-based SITE Intelligence Group cited an "insider source" for the IS group -affiliated Amaq news agency as saying that "Fighters from the Islamic State detonated an explosives-laden vehicle parked in front of a Turkish police headquarters in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey." If confirmed, the claim would be the first ever by IS group for an attack in Turkey, although it has been blamed over the last year for a series of strikes against Kurdish activists, tourists and on Istanbul airport. There has so far been no denial or claim of responsibility from the PKK. The HDP meanwhile said its co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag as well as four other MPs had been brought to the cop shoppe overnight after their detention early Friday. It said in a statement Demirtas had been taken to court just before the attack and Yuksekdag was in the complex when it happened. Without directly saying its MPs were the target, it noted that the minibus packed with explosives had blown up early following an alert from a taxi driver. "All the facts must be revealed about this attack which was planned to be even more devastating and did not reach its intended target," the HDP said. Demirtas and Yuksekdag have been transferred by air to prisons in the western regions of Edirne and Kocaeli respectively, well away from Diyarbakir. |
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