Articles About Terrorist Activities

Hurriyet

An outlawed PKK separatist charged with two deadly blasts in Istanbul has confessed to detonating the bombs and watching the ensuing carnage, Hurriyet daily reported Sunday.

Police have concluded that the June 27 attacks, which claimed 17 lives, were staged by the outlawed separatist PKK, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Saturday, as he announced the arrest of several suspects.      

The bomber was identified as Huseyin Tureli, trained in PKK camps in neighboring northern Iraq. He was among eight suspects whom an Istanbul court Saturday remanded to custody pending trial.

Tureli confessed to planting the bombs in a crowded pedestrian street in the residential neighbourhood of Gungoren and detonating them by mobile telephone, Hurriyet reported.

Tureli, who was accompanied by five accomplices at the scene, told the police they watched for 20 minutes after the second explosion and then walked away, it added.

As the first bomb drew a large crowd of onlookers, a second, more powerful device went off about 10 minutes later, killing 17 people, including five children and a pregnant woman, a tactic to increase casualties. More than 150 people were injured.

Footage from security cameras in the street and records of telephone calls between the suspects were instrumental in rounding them up, Hurriyet said.

The PKK, considered as a terrorist organization by majority of the international community including the European Union and the U.S., are responsible for than 30,000 people’s death for decades.

Source: www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9574799.asp?gid=243&sz=27162

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