ISTANBUL - a suicide bomber blew up Sunday next to a police car in a big Istanbul square close to tourist hotels and a bus terminal, wounding thirty-two people, including 15 police officers.
The attack in Taksim Square, which followed by police shot and hundreds of panic racing sent people for cover, coincided with the possible end of a unilateral cease-fire by Kurdish rebels, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Turkey, a NATO ally that deployed troops in a not combat role in Afghanistan is also home to cells of the radical left and Islamic fighters.
Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said the bomber tried but failed to get into a parked police van and detonated the bomb just outside of the vehicle blows even Stücke.Bereitschaftspolizei are routinely in Taksim, stationed a popular place for street demonstrations which adjoins a large pedestrian street, the shops and restaurants are typically packaged.
At least 32 people, including 15 policemen were injured at least two seriously, Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said.
After the explosion he said investigators at the scene found and ignited a package of plastic explosives which could have defused by pressing a button.
"It was a terrible, very loud explosion," said Mehmet Toz, a coffee stall owners who was ranked at the time of the explosion."Everyone started running around, people on the floor fell.""It was panic."
A further witness, Muammer Ulutas, told a police officer four laps on the body of the suicide bombers after the explosion thrown. He volatile the remains of the perpetrators, who appeared in his early twenties.
The attack occurred when Istanbul was preparing to mark Republic day parades which 1923 founding Turkey became halten.Die festivities originally planned for Friday, but itself because of strong Regen.Taksim place, a crossroads that is a major stop where u-Bahn was network and hotels large close to the Hyatt and Ritz-Carlton, decorated delayed with red and white Turkish flags.
Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in Turkey mainly Kurdish Southeast have a history of suicide bombings in Turkey and their unilateral ceasefire was scheduled to end October ablaufen.Der State held secret talks with the imprisoned leader of the rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in an effort to end the conflict, but an ongoing study of more than 150 Kurds, including a dozen elected Mayor, at the expense of the rebels is links a sign of the deep mistrust between the authorities and the ethnic minority reserves.
Interior Minister Besir Atalay, said in an interview with Turkish journalists during a visit to China, "certain suspected certain evidence," specified behind the attack, but said the Government would not rush to announce his theories.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was inaugurating a hamlet for villagers whose Häuser are flooded by a new dam in southeastern of Turkey, said the suicide attack was aimed at "Hampered the development of Turkey."
"We will show zero tolerance towards those, who want to cause turbulence," Erdogan said.
President Abdullah Gul said the attacker "in your destination, friendship, brotherhood and peace through violence in the face of the people for the unit as brothers life to replace would fail."
Turkey raises often perform the PKK attacks to overthrow would economic and social progress of Turkey to prevent, the great strides in recent years despite conflict between his Islamic leaning government and secular elites to incite relating to the military and justice as hat.Eine made regional power alleged anti-Government network, the officers includes faces charges to chaos, the Erdogan's Government;secular critics say the studies are a Government effort to silence dissent.
At the Taksim combed police sealed roads with yellow tape and area for dirt and other Beweise.Man forensic teams in blue coveralls went to the edge of a monument to Turkish independence in the middle of the square.Hours later, were re-opened in some areas.
The Kurdistan freedom falcons, a militant group claimed in connection with the PKK, responsibility for a bomb attack in Istanbul, the four soldiers and an officer of the 17 year old daughter killed June. authorities suspected Kurdish rebels in a 2008 bombing in Istanbul, the 17 people killed, but the PKK denied participation.
According to the Government last suicide was the bombing by the PKK verletzt.Im May 2007 exploded himself in 2008, when an attacker blew up at a police checkpoint in the Mediterranean city of Mersin and 13 policemen a Kurdish rebel even in the capital Ankara, killing seven.
Two previous suicide attacks in Taksim in 1999 and 2001 two police officers killed and wounded 13 persons.
Homegrown militant Islamists tied to al Qaeda suicide bombings in Istanbul, 58 in 2003 to kill the objectives were performed the British Consulate, 2008 an attack, the blame on al-Qaeda linked militants outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul left a UK Bank and two Synagogen.Im year three attackers and three policemen dead.
On 22 October the Turkish police said five people, including three students, the financial and technical support of the al Qaeda network Afghanistan suspected festgenommen.Die raids in the Aegean coast city Izmir and several other cities conducted.
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Associated press contributed to this report writer Suzan Fraser from Ankara, Turkey.
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