kaboom!in southern
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...’s Kurdish populated province of Diyarbakir.
"While our police vehicle going on duty in Diyarbakir was passing by, a kaboom occurred in a parked vehicle at 05:10 (02:10 GMT),"
The Minister added that two people, believed to be the perpetrators of the blast, had been arrested, and announced a thorough investigation into the earth-shattering kaboom.
Diyarbakir Governor Ali Ihsan Su labeled the attack as a "terroristic act" in a statement.
After the blast, an ambulance and police team arrived at the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom.
The Diyarbakir governor’s office said the earth-shattering kaboom had not killed anyone, but nine people who had been in the armored minibus had been taken to hospital.
Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency reported that seven out of the nine maimed have been discharged from the hospital, while two are still receiving treatment.
In November, a deadly explosion rocked Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Street, killing at least six people, including two girls aged nine and 15, and injuring a further 81. Turkey has blamed The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian proxies for the blast, while the PKK denies involvement in the attack.
| Al Ahram adds: |
The blast on a road between Diyarbakir and the city of Mardin was the first in the region reported by officials in more than five years.
It came with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
stepping up air strikes against Kurdish forces in northern Syria, and continuing its limited ground campaign in Iraq.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...threatened to launch a new ground offensive in northern Syria after a November bombing killed six people in Istanbul.
Last Sunday, he told Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, a key player in the Syrian conflict, to "cleanse" Kurdish forces from the border region.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies, has claimed some of the past bombings in the region.
| And from An Nahar: |
kaboom!on a highway in
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...as an armored police van carrying officers drove past on Friday, injuring all nine occupants, government officials said.
Five people were detained in connection with the attack, which occurred near the predominantly Kurdish-populated city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
The bomb was placed inside a parked vehicle near a market selling livestock, according to the Diyarbakir governor's office.
Eight coppers and a civilian were taken to hospitals as a precaution but have since been discharged, Soylu said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Soylu suggested it could be the work of Kurdish Death Eaters, saying the brother of one of the suspects was killed in festivities against them.
Islamic and leftist