PKK claims attack on Turkish police headquarter

Reuters
August 26, 2016

ISTANBUL:The Kurdistan Workers' Party militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on apolice headquarters in...

ISTANBUL:The Kurdistan Workers' Party(PKK) militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on apolice headquarters in southeast Turkey on Friday, according toa statement on a website affiliated to the group.

The PKK also said it did not deliberately target the leaderof Turkey´s main opposition party in an attack in the northeaston Thursday.

The government had said the PKK had targeted theconvoy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the secularistRepublican People's Party (CHP), who escaped unharmed.

Friday´s suicide truck bombing at the police headquarterskilled at least 11 people and wounded dozens, two days afterTurkey launched an incursion against Islamic State and Kurdishmilitia fighters in Syria.


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