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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish opposition leader says Islamic State behind bombings of Kurds |
| 2015-06-09 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A string of bombings targeting ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish party during its campaign to enter parliament has been linked with 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.... in Syria, the party's chairman said on Monday. Three people were killed in two blasts on Friday in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, minutes before Selahattin Demirtas, head of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), addressed a political rally. The corpse count in the bombings rose from two to three on Monday after a 17-year-old boy died of his injuries, local media said, citing hospital officials. At least 200 people were maimed in the attack. The HDP on Sunday became the first-ever political party with Kurdish roots to enter Turkey's parliament as a party after it easily cleared the 10 percent threshold required. The party took 80 seats in the new parliament, helping to deprive the ruling AK Party of a majority to form a single-party government. Demirtas said the attack, as well as two other bombings of HDP offices in May in which no one was killed, were connected to IS, an armed murderous Moslem group that espouses a hardline interpretation of Islam and controls swaths of war-torn Iraq and Syria, both of which share borders with Turkey. "The assaults in Adana and Mersin - the person who placed the bombs, had apparently been to Syria recently and spent time with IS. Again the other person who was involved here in the third bombing apparently had connections to IS," Demirtas said in an interview with CNN. His comments were dubbed into English. He did not say how he had obtained this information or what evidence there was linking the bombings to IS, but he blamed state security for failing to prevent the attacks. |
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