[Iran Press TV Latest] A former Turkish justice minister has escaped unharmed from a blast at an Ankara university after a woman approached him and detonated a bomb. The incident happened on Wednesday as former Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk was about to enter a Bilkent University hall to give a lecture when a woman, identified as Didem Akman, came up to him and ignited the fuse of a bomb that did not go off, Today's Zaman daily reported.
Police also detained another suspect, identified as Serkan Onur Yilmaz, at a bus terminal in Ankara who was allegedly keeping watch for Akman. "A woman approached and detonated a bomb. She was lying on the floor one meter away from me. I think she was injured," Turk said.
The expert in constitutional law added that he had been receiving death threats since a prison uprising in December 2000. Several inmates and prison guards were then killed in the rebellion.
Turk escaped an assassination attempt unscathed in 2002 when an assailant under the guise of a reporter attacked him at Kartal Prison, Istanbul. Turk was offering a tour for journalists at that time.
According to police records, Akman has been arrested three times in her life -- the first time was in 2005.
Last year, she was jailed for eight months over membership in the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), classified as a terrorist organization.