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Car bomb kills one in southeast Turkey - sources

Türkiye Materials 4 November 2012 20:31 (UTC +04:00)
A car bomb exploded in southeast Turkey on Sunday as a police vehicle passed by, killing one person and wounding 12 others, Anadolu Agency reported.
Car bomb kills one in southeast Turkey - sources

A car bomb exploded in southeast Turkey on Sunday as a police vehicle passed by, killing one person and wounding 12 others, Anadolu Agency reported.

The blast occurred in the town of Semdinli in Hakkari province on Turkey's borders with Iraq.

The area is a focus of activity for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has several thousand fighters based in the mountains of neighboring northern Iraq.

More than 40,000 people have been killed in the PKK's conflict with Turkey since the militants took up arms in 1984 with the aim of carving out a state in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.

The PKK is designated a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and European Union.

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