| Officials allege Syria link in deadly attack |
[22. Aug 2012|00:41] |
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/officials-allege-syria-link-in-deadly-attack.aspx?pageID=238&nID=28318&NewsCatID=338
ANKARA / GAZİANTEP
The government claims Syria might be behind the Gaziantep bombing as leading officials prepare to attend today’s funerals for victims
Members of a forensic team inspects a wreckage after a bombing in the southeastern province of Gaziantep kills at least nine people, including four children, and wounds nearly 70 other. The blast hits a city bus and a minibus which are picking passengers.
There is a possibility the defiant Syrian regime may be behind the recent attack in Gaziantep, Turkish government officials have said, despite a lack of evidence currently at hand.
“It’s known that the (outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party) PKK is working closely with the Syrian intelligence agency Mukhabarat. [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad intends to see the PKK as its friend under the [idea that] ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend,’” ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Chairman Hüseyin Çelik told daily Hürriyet in an article published yesterday. The attack aimed to sabotage the social structure of Gaziantep, where half the population is Kurdish and lives in peace, Çelik said. While the PKK had the capability to handle such an attack on its own the organization could have also had support, he said.
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