Baku, Azerbaijan, June 6
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
The postponement of Turkey's parliamentary election in connection with the explosion is out of the question," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Turkish A Haber TV channel June 6.
"This incident took place the day before the election," President Erdogan said. "This did not occur by chance."
The explosion occurred at a campaign rally of the Peoples' Democratic Party in Diyarbakir June 5.
Two people died and some 100 people were injured.
"The cause of the explosion is outside interference," Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on June 5.
"The source of the explosion was not a transformer box," he said. "It is about the external intervention. The blast knocked out the door inside the booth, so the epicenter of the explosion was outside."
The parliamentary election in Turkey will be held on June 7.
Some 20 parties will take part in the election, during which 53,765,231 people are going to cast their votes.
The main competition at the parliamentary election is expected to be between the ruling Justice and Development Party and the Republican People's Party.
If the Peoples' Democratic Party overcomes the 10-percent threshold and goes into the parliament, the ruling party will have to form a coalition government.
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