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Diyarbakir: Explosion in Turkey's main Kurdish city

Türkiye Materials 15 June 2007 11:48 (UTC +04:00)

( Ihlas ) - An explosion occurred on Friday in the centre of Diyarbakir, a pre-dominantly Kurdish southeastern Turkish city, leaving a number of people injured.

The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, but security sources said it could be a bomb.

Diyarbakir, a city of around one million people, is a hotbed of Kurdish separatist militancy.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast in 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.

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